Question: Where did the genre of painting Joseph Solman was known for originate?

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Dismissal of School on an October Afternoon: Dismissal of School on an October Afternoon was painted by Henry Inman.  An elected founding member of the National Academy of Design, Inman was well-known in the New York City art scene.  Although predominately known for his portrait paintings, Henry Inman was also known for painting genre scenes and literary subjects.  Commissioned by James Cozzens, this painting was finished on November 8, 1845, which makes it his last completed painting before his January 1846 death.  It is a culmination of his successful career, as it is a blend of landscape, genre, and literary reference.

Joseph Solman: Joseph Solman (January 25, 1909 – April 16, 2008) was a Jewish American painter, a founder of The Ten, a group of New York City Expressionist painters in the 1930s.  His best known works include his "Subway Gouaches" depicting travellers on the New York City Subway.

Expressionism: Expressionism was a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century.  Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas.  Expressionist artists sought to express the meaning of emotional experience rather than physical reality.

Adoration of the Shepherds (Le Nain): The Adoration of the Shepherds by the Le Nain Brothers is in the National Gallery in London.  The painting dates from about 1640, and is relatively unusual as a religious subject or history painting in their "oeuvre"; they are best known for genre painting, especially groups of peasants.  As with most of the works of Antoine (c 1600–1648), Louis (c. 1603? –1648) and Mathieu (1607–1677) Le Nain, it is not possible to establish which brother, or combination of brothers, painted it.  This painting is unsigned, but when they signed their works, from 1641 to 1648, it was simply as "Lenain".

Woodlands style: The Woodland School Of Art, also named Woodlands style, Woodlands School, or Anishnabe painting, is a genre of painting among First Nations and Native American artists from the Great Lakes area - including northern Ontario and southwestern Manitoba.  The majority of the Woodland artists belong to the Anishinaabeg - notably the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi, as well as the Oji-Cree and the Cree.  The style is also known as Legend Painting or Medicine Painting.

Joseph Alexander Ames: Joseph Alexander Ames (1816–1872) was an American artist, primarily known for portrait and genre painting.  Originally named Joseph Emes, he was born in Roxbury, New Hampshire.  Ames began painting at a young age.  At the age of twelve Henry Theodore Tuckerman wrote about one of his paintings.  After moderate success at home in Saugus, Massachusetts, he left for Boston in 1841.  While in Boston, Ames tried to replicate the style of Washington Allston.  In 1848, Ames traveled to Rome, where he painted a portrait of Pope Pius IX that was featured at the National Academy of Design's annual exhibition in 1850.  When he returned from Italy he was commissioned by Rufus Choate, Daniel Webster, and Abraham Lincoln.  He kept a studio in Boston in Amory Hall (ca.1849), and later on Tremont Street (ca.1856), and then on Summer Street.  Ames exhibited at the Boston Athenæum, the National Academy of Design, and the Pennsylvania Academy.  He eventually moved to Baltimore, and then to New York, where he died of a "brain fever".

Michael Neher: Michael Neher (1798 at Munich – 1876 in Munich), the son of Joseph Neher, a citizen and painter of that city, but of a family from Biberach.  Michael received a classical education, and was instructed in the rudiments of painting by Mitterer, and in 1813 entered the Academy at Munich.  From 1816 to 1818 he studied under Matthias Klotz, and was then employed by Angelo Quaglio in his theatrical work.  After having worked for some time as scene-painter at the Court Theatre, he went to Trento, Milan, and Trieste, and painted portraits.  In 1819 he was encouraged by Hieronymus Hess, at Rome, to devote himself to genre painting.  On his return to Munich in 1823 he became Conservator of the Art Union.  In 1839 he painted several saloons in the Hohenschwangen Schloss, after sketches of Schwind, Gasner, and Schwanthaler.  He, however, in 1837 devoted himself entirely to architectural painting, and travelled for improvement on the Rhine, and in Belgium.  He was received an honorary member of the Academy at Munich in 1876, and died there in the same year.

Malle Babbe: Malle Babbe is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted between 1633 and 1635 and now in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin.  The painting has also been titled as "Hille Bobbe" or the "Witch of Haarlem".  It was traditionally interpreted as a tronie, or genre painting in a portrait format, depicting a mythic witch-figure.  The painting is now often identified as a genre-style portrait of a specific individual from Haarlem, known as Malle (meaning "crazy") Babbe, who may have been an alcoholic or suffered from a mental illness.

Genre painting: Genre painting, also called genre scene or petit genre, depicts aspects of everyday life by portraying ordinary people engaged in common activities.  One common definition of a genre scene is that it shows figures to whom no identity can be attached either individually or collectively—thus distinguishing "petit genre" from history paintings (also called "grand genre") and portraits.  A work would often be considered as a genre work even if it could be shown that the artist had used a known person—a member of his family, say—as a model.  In this case it would depend on whether the work was likely to have been intended by the artist to be perceived as a portrait—sometimes a subjective question.  The depictions can be realistic, imagined, or romanticized by the artist.  Because of their familiar and frequently sentimental subject matter, genre paintings have often proven popular with the bourgeoisie, or middle class.

Lacquer painting: Lacquer painting is a form of painting with lacquer which was practised in China and Japan for decoration on lacquerware, and found its way to Europe both via Persia and by direct contact with Asia.  The genre was revived and developed as a distinct genre of fine art painting by Vietnamese artists in the 1930s; the genre is known in Vietnamese as "sơn mài."

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Answer: Germany