Joachim Hinrich Wrage - Artist Info

About Joachim Hinrich Wrage

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    Joachim Hinrich Wrage (born March 12, 1843 in Hitzhusen; † July 4, 1912 in Gremsmühlen) was a German landscape painter and graphic artist. He is one of the most important exponents of plein-air painting in the last third of the 19th century and, with his work, is one of the pioneers of Impressionism.

    Hinrich Wrage's pictures mostly show his preferred motifs of the landscape of Sylt and eastern Holstein. The realistically - without glossing over, idealization or stylization - painted pictures make him one of the most important painters of "North German Realism".

    Hinrich Wrage was the brother of the church painter Wilhelm August Wrage. Hinrich Wrage was born in Hitzhusen (near Bad Bramstedt) in 1843 as the son of a family of far...

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