The Light of the Naabtal The air in Kallmünz carries a specific weight, a stillness that once drew dozens of painters to the banks of the Naab River. In 1901, Charles Johann Palmié and his wife, the flower painter Marie Kapferer, opened an inn here, turning this small German settlement into a magnet for the creative spirit. Palmié called it the "pearl of the Naabtal." He was a man of large scales and shimmering light, a painter who sought the essence of atmosphere through the lens of Neo-Impressionism. His brushwork moved away from the rigid lines of his early training toward a more fluid, po…