About Balduin Wolff
Lived 1819 – 1907 (aged 88). Balduin Wolff was a German chess player, painter and artist.
(Hermann) Balduin Wolff (15 July 1819 – 21 November 1907) was a German painter of the Romantic period, and a chess player.
Born in Schmiedeberg im Riesengebirge (now Kowary), Silesia (then Prussia, now Poland), he graduated from a gymnasium of Hirschberg, and studied at Berlin University of the Arts (Universität der Künste Berlin) and Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf).
He drew a game with Louis Paulsen in a blindfold simultaneous display at Düsseldorf in 1862.
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German painter and chess player (1819-1907)
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Balduin Wolff was born on 15 July 1819 in Kowary.
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Balduin Wolff died on 21 November 1907 in Düsseldorf.
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Balduin Wolff was a chess player, painter and artist.
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Balduin Wolff was German.
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