Eduard Wilhelm Pose

Eduard Wilhelm Pose (9 July 1812 – 14 March 1878) was a German Romantic landscape painter associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.

Biography He was born in Düsseldorf. His father, Ludwig Pose, was a decorative painter. As a boy, he accompanied him on his work throughout the Rhineland. During a visit to Rheinstein Castle, where his father had received a commission from Prince Frederick, he decided to become a painter too.

From 1829 to 1836, he attended the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and studied with the landscape painter, Johann Wilhelm Schirmer from 1832 to 1833. His first landscapes depicted the regions of Hunsrück and Eifel and received excellent marks. In 1836, he and several other students left the Kunstakademie, due to conflicts with its conservative director, Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow.

He went to Munich and found a position in the studios of Carl Rottmann. An outbreak of cholera led to him to move to Frankfurt am Main and find work painting the Eltz Castle. He returned to Munich in 1838. Shortly after, he exhibited his painting of Tyrol Castle in Brussels, where it was purchased by King Leopold I.

Pose died on 14 March 1878 in Frankfurt at the age of 65.