CHAPTER VII

THE DÜSSELDORFERS

On the Rhine, a school of painting instead of a school of drawing.--Wilhelm Schadow, Carl Friedrich Lessing, Theodor Hildebrandt, Carl Sohn, Heinrich Mücke, Christian Koehler, H. Plüddemann, Eduard Bendemann, Theodor Mintrop, Friedrich Ittenbach, Ernest Deger.--Why their pictures, despite technical merits, have become antiquated 157