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In Germany. 557 Jagdrecht) created a great sensation at the time of its pro- duction; but, perhaps, more from the nature of its subject than its intrinsic merits. Adolf Schrodter (1805 — 1875), and Johann Peter Hasen- clever (1810 — 1853), pupils of the Diisseldorf School, painted genre subjects with much success. Joseph Anton Koch (1768 — 1839), who has been called the restorer of landscape painting in Germany, is well repre- sented in the galleries of his native country. Lessing, too, whom we have already noticed, was a good landscape painter. Every large town in Germany became a centre of painting. Karl Wilhelm Kolbe, the younger (1781—1853), August Karl Friedrich von Klober (1793 — 1864), whose style was influenced by a study of Rubens and Correggio ; Karl Begas (1794—1854); Franz Kriiger (1797—1857), cele- brated for his paintings of horses — all of whom devoted themselves to romantic and historic compositions ; and Eduard Magnus (1799 — 1872), known for his genre subjects and portraits : — these are a few prominent names among those artists who have made Berlin famous in art during the greater part of the nineteenth century. In Vienna, Johann Peter Krafft (1780—1856), Georg Ferdinand Waldmiiller (1793—1865), and Joseph Dan- hauser (1805 — 1845), practised genre and portrait painting with great success. Alfred Rethel (1816—1859), a native of Aix-la-Chapelle, a student in the Diisseldorf Academy, painted much at Frankfort and at Aix. His works are taken from sacred and national history, and also include portraits.