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Three Women in Church (German: Die drei Frauen in der Kirche) is an 1881 oil painting by the German realist painter Wilhelm Leibl which is in the collection of the Kunsthalle Hamburg.[1]

Three Women in Church
Artist	Wilhelm Leibl
Year	1881
Medium	oil on mahogany
Dimensions	113 cm × 77 cm (44 in × 30 in)
Location	Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

The painting depicts three generations of German peasants sitting together in a pew at the village church in Berbling near Bad Aibling, Bavaria. Leibl had left his previous base in Munich to live amongst the people of the countryside and record their everyday life. This work followed a series of such paintings and was the high point of his artistic career, taking some three and a half years to complete.[2] The three women featured in the work were modelled by locals and the painting carried out in situ in the church.

A problem arose when the church pastor died in 1878 shortly after work on the painting began and his replacement refused permission for Leibl to continue. Only the intervention of Luitpold, the Prince Regent of Bavaria, overcame the difficulty. Leibl also had to deal with the problem of capturing the detail of the women's features and clothing in his realistic style in the gloom of a country church and with problems of perspective which meant that the women's hands were made disproportionately large.

See also

• 100 Great Paintings, 1980 BBC series

References

На других языках

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[de] Drei Frauen in der Kirche

Drei Frauen in der Kirche ist ein Bild von Wilhelm Leibl. Das Ölgemälde auf Mahagoniholz ist 113 × 77 cm groß und stellt drei Bäuerinnen unterschiedlichen Alters in Miesbacher Gebirgstracht dar, die betend und lesend auf einer Kirchenbank sitzen.

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- [en] Three Women in Church (Leibl)

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[ru] Три женщины в церкви

«Три женщины в церкви» (нем. Drei Frauen in der Kirche) — картина в стиле реализма немецкого художника Вильгельма Лейбля, написана в 1878—1882 годах и представляет собой живопись маслом на холсте размером 113×77 см. В настоящее время хранится в Кунстхалле в Гамбурге.

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