German artist's happy depiction of a 19th Century Christmas Eve

German artist’s happy depiction of a 19th Century Christmas Eve
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A strange Christmas for all of us, so I am pleased to show a joyful, traditional scene.
Titled Christmas Eve, by the German artist Carle Rumpf, the picture might be termed folk art, a genre that gives many of the works an immediacy and playfulness, while often disregarding accepted ideas of scale and perspective.
This charming depiction of a happy and bountiful Christmas Eve was most probably painted in Frankfurt in 1821 and shows the European custom of celebrating Christmas Eve with presents.
Norman Watson.
Two hundred years on, my friend Katrin will be doing exactly that in Berlin on Thursday. A Happy Christmas to her.

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