About Ludwig Elsholtz
Lived 1805 – 1850 (aged 44). Ludwig Elsholtz was a German painter.
Ludwig Elsholtz (1805–1850), a German painter of genre subjects and battles, born at Berlin, studied in the Academy of his native city, and afterwards in the studio of Franz Krüger, the painter of horses. His best work is The Battle of Leipsic, painted in 1833, and now in the possession of the German Emperor. He died at Berlin in 1850. In the Berlin National Gallery is The Beginning of the Fight, dated 1834.
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Who was Ludwig Elsholtz?
painter (1805-1850)
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Ludwig Elsholtz was born on 2 June 1805 in Berlin.
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Ludwig Elsholtz died on 3 February 1850 in Berlin.
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Ludwig Elsholtz was a painter.
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Ludwig Elsholtz was German.
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