Carl Böker produced religious and Orientalist works, but is most famous for his genre scenes of schoolchildren, Bavarian peasants, and rural German life. Here we see Böker at his finest, with a richly-detailed and sentimental picture of young people stopping to pray at a shrine on a country road with symbolic lambs resting nearby.
Pausing by the Wayside Shrine, c.1902, Oil on CanvasCarl Böker German (1836 - 1870) |
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Carl Böker produced religious and Orientalist works, but is most famous for his genre scenes of schoolchildren, Bavarian peasants, and rural German life. Here we see Böker at his finest, with a richly-detailed and sentimental picture of young people stopping to pray at a shrine on a country road with symbolic lambs resting nearby. |
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