Who painted “Gnome watching railway train”?

“Gnome watching railway train” was painted by Carl Spitzweg in 1848.

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Romanticism: Neoclassicism is cool and linear; Romanticism is turbulent and colourful. Realism, which followed, replaced drama with ordinary life.

Carl Spitzweg (February 5, 1808 – September 23, 1885) was a German romantic painter, especially of genre subjects. He is considered to be one of the most important artists of the Biedermeier era. Wikipedia

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“Magician and Dragon”, 1875
“The intercepted love letter”, 1860s
“The Geologist”, 1860
“Justitia”, 1857
“Newspaper Reader in the Garden”, 1845
“The Old Bachelor”, 1846
“Flying kites”, 1880
“The Minister Tending his Cactuses”, 1855