Thomas Ludwig Herbst (27 July 1848, in

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– 19 January 1915, in Hamburg) was a German

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painter; known mostly for landscapes and animal portraits.

Biography

He took his first lessons in 1865 with Jakob Becker at the Städelsches Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt. The following year, he transferred to the

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in Berlin, where he worked with

Carl Steffeck Carl Constantin Heinrich Steffeck (4 April 1818, Berlin – 11 July 1890, Königsberg) was a German painter and graphic artist. He was especially well known for his paintings of horses and dogs. Life He was the son of a "gentleman of independ ...

. In 1868, he transferred again, this time to the Weimar Saxon Grand Ducal Art School, where he took advanced studies with Charles Verlat. From 1873 to 1876, he lived in

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and took several trips to the Netherlands. He then spent a year in Paris with his friend,

Max Liebermann Max Liebermann (20 July 1847 – 8 February 1935) was a German painter and printmaker, and one of the leading proponents of Impressionism in Germany and continental Europe. In addition to his activity as an artist, he also assembled an important ...

, before moving to Munich, where he came into contact with the

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and

Wilhelm Leibl Wilhelm Maria Hubertus Leibl (October 23, 1844 – December 4, 1900) was a German realist painter of portraits and scenes of peasant life. Biography Leibl was born in Cologne, where his father was the director of the Cathedral choir. He was a ...

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@ the Galerie Herold. In 1884, he returned to Hamburg and became a drawing teacher at the "Vocational School for Women". More training followed in 1890, with the landscape painter, Carl Rodeck. In 1897, he became one of the founding members of the but, according to Arthur Siebelist, resigned in 1903 because he did not like their "cultural standards". In 1906, he went on an extended study trip to

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with Friedrich Ahlers-Hestermann. In later years, he acquired the nickname "Kuhherbst" (Kuh means Cow), in reference to one of his favorite subjects. In 2015, on the centennial of his death, the Jenisch House in Hamburg held a major retrospective of his works.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Herbst, Thomas 1848 births 1915 deaths Painters from Hamburg 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German male painters 20th-century German painters 20th-century German male artists German Impressionist painters Prussian Academy of Arts alumni

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