"The technical training in anatomically accurate drawing at the Dresden Academy fell on fertile ground not only among the critical realists, but also among artists who preferred to portray the 'beautiful' side of life. Thus, in 1919, Georg Siebert emerged, honored with prizes from the very beginning […]. Especially after Siebert had experienced the art of Ferdinand Hodler in Switzerland, around 1930 he created extremely close-up portraits of children and groups [as well as portraits] in which even the interaction in the pictorial narrative achieves an unusual degree of realism. Such selected works can neither all be attributed to the retrospective attitude of a belated painting of the late 19th century […] nor to a naturalistic Hei...