About Pauline Soltau
Lived 1833 – 1902 (aged 68). Pauline Soltau was a German painter.
Pauline Soltau (30 June 1833 – 13 April 1902; née Pauline Suhrlandt) was a German painter and violinist. She was known for her portrait paintings and genre scene paintings.
Life and career Pauline Soltau was born as Pauline Suhrlandt on 30 June 1833, in Ludwigslust, Germany. Her younger brother was painter Carl Suhrlandt.
Soltau started since early childhood painting and playing the violin. She also studied fine art with her father Rudolf Suhrlandt, and with painter Édouard Dubufe in Paris.
Subjects of her portraits included , Georg Adolf Demmler, Emilie Mayer, and Frederick Francis II.
She died on 13 April 1902, in Schwerin, Germany.
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German painter
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Pauline Soltau was born on 30 June 1833 in Ludwigslust.
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Pauline Soltau died on 13 April 1902 in Schwerin.
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Pauline Soltau was a painter.
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