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Kunstwerken kopen van de Duitse kunstenaar Daniel Greiner

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Daniel Greiner was a German artist born in Pforzheim/Germany in 1872 and died in Jugenheim/Germany in 1943. He was a sculptor (bronze), draftsman, painter, engraver (wood) and graphic designer (including medals). He worked in Paris, Berlin, Darmstadt and Jugenheim. He belonged to the Darmstadt artists' colony. Daniel Greiner had been a pastor but, after a conflict with the authorities in his Scots parish, decided to turn to art instead. He was educated in Paris and then at the Bildhauerschule (school of sculpture) in Berlin. In 1903 Joseph Maria Olbrich invited him to stay in the Mathildenhöhe colony in Darmstadt. His contributions to the colony's 1904 exhibition were sculptures integrated into structures and by other sculptures set up in the open air. In 1906 he settled in Jugenheim and founded the Werkstätte für Grabmalkunst Greiner und Guth. A militant and politically active socialist, he was placed on the Index in 1933. His adherence to Jugendstil evolved into expressive realism. He engraved a selection of images from the Bible on wood, this was known as the 'Greiner Bibel' (Greiner's Bible). (RKD and Benezit)