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Wilhelm Trübner (Heidelberg, February 3, 1851 - Karlsruhe, December 21, 1917) was a German realist painter. The early 1870s were a period of discovery for Trübner. He travelled to Italy, Holland and Belgium, and in Paris encountered the art of Manet, whose influence can be seen in the spontaneous yet restrained style of Trübner's portraits and landscapes. From 1903 until his death in 1917 he was a professor at the Academy of Arts in Karlsruhe, also serving as director from 1904 to 1910.
[Sold for £5,000 at Sotheby’s, London - Oil on canvas, 64 x 61 cm]