TRÜBNER, Wilhelm
(b. 1851, Heidelberg, d. 1917, Karlsruhe)

Girl with Folded Hands

1878
Oil on canvas, 92 x 60 cm
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden

Wilhelm Trübner was among the most sensitive yet strong artists of the later nineteenth century. He learned a great deal from French developments. Manet, whose paintings Trübner saw at Munich's International Exhibition of 1869, first liberated the German painter's art. With many Northern European painters, Trübner found Courbet, as well as Manet, to be unusually influential.