Carl Herpfer
German, 1836-1897
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Born in 1836 in a town near Munich, Carl Herpfer studied at the Royal Academy of Art in Munich with Johann von Schraudolph and Karl von Piloty, among others. Despite being steeped in academic history painting through his teachers, Herpfer made a name for himself with elaborate genre scenes revolving around domestic events of the bourgeois society.