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| | New Georgia Encyclopedia: Telfair Museum of Art |
 | | The academy's first director, the academically trained German-born painter Carl Brandt, collected more than 100 works for the institution between 1883 and his death in 1905, traveling abroad to acquire pieces by academic artists like Karl Franz Gebhardt, Arthur Hacker, Jozef von Brandt, and Julian Story. |
 | | The collection is also distinguished by important nineteenth-century decorative arts, particularly Neoclassical furniture dating from 1820 to 1840. |
 | | The Telfair supplements its permanent collection with a variety of temporary exhibitions, ranging from the retrospective Frederick Carl Frieseke: The Evolution of an American Impressionist, shown in 2001, to exhibits on African art, Japanese prints, photography, Neoclassical decorative arts, contemporary Georgia artists, and folk art. |
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