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Hugo von Habermann (Dillingen, June 14, 1849 - Munich, February 27, 1929) was a German painter. He is sometimes referred to as "the Elder" to distinguish him from his nephew of the same name, who was also a painter. In 1870, he served as an army officer in the Franco-Prussian War, but despite this distraction managed to produce his first painting on the subject of Ruth and Boaz. The following year, he was appointed to oversee the artists who were painting portraits of the prisoners-of-war in Ingolstadt. It was then that he decided to give up his law studies and become a painter.
[Alte und Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin - Oil on canvas]