Carl Schuch

[3] In 1884 and 1885 he spent the summer months in the Netherlands, studying the Dutch old masters as well as the contemporary painters of the Hague School, and filling notebooks with detailed descriptions of the colors he observed in paintings that he admired.

Of all the artists belonging to the circle around Wilhelm Leibl (called the Leibl-Kreis), Schuch was the most devoted to color.

The two met in Bavaria, traveled all over central Europe together, and settled for 3 years in Ferch, a small village south of Berlin.

The robust Hagemeister tended to the sensitive Schuch by cooking, hunting, and fishing for the pair.

[5] Schuch was financially independent and made little effort to exhibit his work; in his lifetime he sold only one painting.