About Theodor Poeckh
Lived 1839 – 1921 (aged 81). Theodor Poeckh was a German painter and university teacher.
Theodor Poeckh (20 April 1839, Braunschweig5 January 1921, Karlsruhe) was a German portrait painter.
Biography From 1860 to 1861, he was a student of Hans Fredrik Gude at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. After that, he attended the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, where he studied with Carl Theodor von Piloty.
He remained in Munich, until he was appointed to a teaching position at the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe; left vacant by the death Ludwig des Coudres. There, he took charge of the newly created nature and classical painting classes, with as an assistant. Some of his best known students were Christian Wilhelm Allers, , Pedro Weingärtner and Paul Schultze-Naumburg.
The Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe has a collection of his works.
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Who was Theodor Poeckh?
German painter (1839-1921)
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Theodor Poeckh was born on 20 April 1839 in Brunswick.
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Theodor Poeckh died on 5 January 1921 in Karlsruhe.
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Theodor Poeckh was a painter and university teacher.
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Theodor Poeckh was German.
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