Christmas through artists’ eyes

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Paul Gauguin (1848-1903): Small child (Tahitian Christmas), 1896 akg

Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510): The Adoration of the Magi, ca 1473/75 akg

Hans Andersen Brendekilde (1857-1920): The arrival of the Christmas tree, undated akg

Paul Klee (1879-1940): Christmas still life, 1914 akg

Carl Larsson (1853-1919): Now it's Christmas again, 1907 akg

Paul Adolf Seehaus (1891-1919): Two children under the Christmas tree, 1914 akg

Julius Victor Carstens (1849-1908): On Christmas morning, ca 1905 akg

Konstantin Aleksandrovich Trutovsky (1827-1893): Christmas carolling in the Ukraine, 1864 akg

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882): A Christmas carol, 1867 akg

Matthias Koeppel (1937-): Self portrait as neo-cubist Father Christmas, 2008 akg

Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiyev (1878-1927): Christmas tree bargain, 1918 akg

Lovis Corinth (1858-1925): Distributing Christmas presents, 1913 akg

Bernhard Kretzschmar (1889-1972): Still life with stollen and wine bottle, 1963 akg

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A religious experience, a family festival, a time for reflection, a time of excitement - Christmas has inspired artists of very different periods and backgrounds.

(pictures: agk images)