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Uhde, Fritz von

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Uhde, Fritz von (b Wolkenburg, Saxony, 22 May 1848; d Munich, 25 Feb. 1911). German painter, active mainly in Munich, where he was a founder member of the Sezession in 1892. He did not settle on art as a career until 1877, after spending ten years as an army officer. His work included landscapes, portraits, and genre scenes, but he is best known for his novel treatment of biblical subjects in modern settings. The first of these was Suffer the Little Children to Come unto Me (1884, Mus. der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig), showing Jesus as an itinerant preacher at a village school. Such paintings aroused great controversy, as they were regarded by conservative critics as sacrilegious, but their sincerity and sentiment also won them many admirers. Often Uhde used outdoor settings, in line with his interest in plein-air painting, in which he was encouraged by Liebermann.

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Fritz von Unruh

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Fritz von Unruh , 1885–1970, German dramatic poet. Son of a Prussian general, Unruh was an officer who became a pacifist after World War I. His expressionist plays include Offiziere (1912), the antiwar Ein Geschlecht [a family] (1917), and its sequel, Platz (1920). The prose epic Opfergang (1918; tr. The Way of Sacrifice, 1928), written during the siege of Verdun, is powerful antiwar propaganda. After the publication of Bonaparte (1927, tr. 1928), his warning against the coming dictatorship, Unruh left Germany, returning in 1948. His other works include The End Is Not Yet (tr. 1947), an anti-Nazi novel, and a play, Odysseus auf Ogygia (1968).

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