The Open court . In a similar way one of the most prominent Protestant paintersdeals with the same problem from the point of view of the nineteenthcentury. Wilhelm Kaulbach was born October 15, 1805, in Arolsen,and studied in Diisseldorf under Cornelius whom he followed toMunich. In 1847 he was called to Berlin to decorate the lar^e 292 THE OPEN COURT. walls of the staircase hall in the New Museum with characteristicscenes from history which were to be so selected as to representthe religious world-conception of his patron the king of Prussiaand Protestant Germany in Kaulbach finishe
The Open court . In a similar way one of the most prominent Protestant paintersdeals with the same problem from the point of view of the nineteenthcentury. Wilhelm Kaulbach was born October 15, 1805, in Arolsen,and studied in Diisseldorf under Cornelius whom he followed toMunich. In 1847 he was called to Berlin to decorate the lar^e 292 THE OPEN COURT. walls of the staircase hall in the New Museum with characteristicscenes from history which were to be so selected as to representthe religious world-conception of his patron the king of Prussiaand Protestant Germany in Kaulbach finished these frescoes in 1863. They remained thechief work of his life. He died of cholera in Munich in 1874. The first picture of the series shows the Tower of Babel, amonument of daring mankind destroyed by God who descends uponit and curses the nations by the confusion of tongues. God, asJehovah flanked by angels with fiery swords, stands in a glaring kaulbachs frescoes. 293 halo of light. The laborers are frightened away from their work. In the center below Jehovah sits a despot surrounded by flatterers and other adherents who tolerate his rule. There are dead victims beneath his feet and a woman, who is probably the mother of the slain children, begs for mercy. On the left some laborers are still hauling up stones, but they are met by a woman who calls to them to stop. On the right hand we see a caravan of camels starting for distant lands. The lower groups divide themselves into the children of Shem, Ham and Japheth. The Semites of the type of the patriarch Abraham ar
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