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 in Paris. Professor at Berlin Academy. Works: Marguerite Le Riche consoling her Fellow-Prisoners; Graziella; Toilet in Capri; Two Girls on a Roof; First Age of the World; Iphigenia; Girl Asleep (1881); Curtain for Royal Theatre at Dresden (1882).—Kunst-Chronik, xvii. 659; Müller, 269.

HÜBNER, KARL (WILHELM), born in Königsberg, June 17, 1814, died in Düsseldorf, Dec. 5, 1879. Genre painter, pupil in Königsberg of I. Wolf, and from 1839-41 at the Düsseldorf Academy under Karl Sohn and Schadow. Established his reputation by painting subjects relating to the social problems of the day, but after 1848 he treated subjects of more general interest, which met with great success, particularly in Holland and America, and caused his being made an honorary member of the Amsterdam and Philadelphia Academies. On a visit to America in 1874-75 he was warmly received by American artists in the principal cities of the Union. He was one of the most active founders, in 1844, of the Düsseldorf Union of Artists for mutual aid, and in 1848 of the Malkasten, to which he gave its name. Works: Angry Old Man, Sick Child (1839); New Apprentice, Barred Well (1843); The Silesian Weavers (1844); Help in Need, Sleeping Wood-Thief, Charity in the Cottage of the Poor (1845); Shooting-License (1846),	Ravené Gallery, Berlin; The Emigrants (1846), Christiania Museum; The Forsaken (1846); Little Wood-Thieves (1847); The Pouters (1847), Carlsruhe Gallery; Birthday; Seizure for Debt (1848), Königsberg Museum; Midday Rest of Peasants during Harvest (1849), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Orphans at Parents' Grave, Rescue from Fire (1853); Old Warrior telling of his Deeds (1854), Labourer rescuing Child from burning House, Provinzial Museum, Hanover; Surprised Lovers; The Orphans; The Outcast (1867), National Gallery, Berlin; The Twins, Sailor's Return, Sinner at the Church Door, Comfort in Prayer, The Widow, Düsseldorf Gallery; Shelter from the Storm (1874); Consolation in Prayer (1875), Düsseldorf Gallery; Quartering in the Vineland (1876); Depressed Mood (1877); An Artist on the Dutch Coast, Happy Union (1878); The Recovery, Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia. His son and pupil Julius (born at Düsseldorf in 1842, died there, Dec. 30, 1874) was a promising genre painter of humorous subjects. Works: The Great Bootjack; The New Barometer; Scrubbing Day; Bad Memory.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xiii. 270; Illustr. Zeitg. (1880), i. 36; Kunst-Chronik; Wolfg. Müller, Düsseldf. K., 292; Wiegmann, 329; Blanckarts, 81.

HÜBNER, (RUDOLF) JULIUS (BENNO), born at Oels, Silesia, Jan. 27, 1806, died at Loschwitz, Nov. 7, 1882. History painter, pupil of Berlin Academy under Schadow, whom he followed to Düsseldorf in 1826; having returned to Berlin, he married Bendemann's sister in 1829, and going in the same year to Italy was in Rome with Schadow in 1830, in Berlin in 1831, and in Düsseldorf in 1833. In 1839 he followed Bendemann to Dresden, where he became professor at the Academy in 1841, and director of the Royal Gallery in 1871. Member of Dresden, Berlin, and Philadelphia Academies. Great gold medal in Brussels (1851). Numerous Orders. Works: Boaz and Ruth (1825); The Fisherman (1827); Roland liberating Princess Isabella (1828); Ruth and Naomi (1830), Guardian Angels (1836), Infant Christ (1837), Golden Age (1849), National Gallery, Berlin; Samson breaking the Columns (1832); Holy Family (1833), Leipsic Museum; Christ and Evangelists (1834); Ecce