- Ernst Toepfer
Ernst Toepfer (
June 4 1877 –August 6 1955 ) was a German painter.Toepfer was born in
Wiesbaden ,Hesse-Nassau . From 1893 to 1895, he attended the "Zeichen-, Mal- und Kunstgewerbeschule", a private artist's school led byH. Bouffier , where he was commended for his diligence ("recht gutes Auffassungsvermögen und recht gutes Können, gepaart mit großem Fleiße"), then studied at the "Großherzogliche Akademie der bildenden Künste" inKarlsruhe , led byLeopold Graf von Kalckreuth , until mid-1898. Starting in 1898, Toepfer then studied at the "Königlich-Akademische Hochschule der bildenden Künste" inBerlin -Charlottenburg for ten years, from which he graduated in late 1908 as a master student with his own studio.Toepfer married Maria Theresia Klaus, who he had met during a stay in Brandenburg, in
Berlin in 1909; the couple then moved toIdstein , in 1910 after finding a suitable house, the "Höerhof" (Obergasse 15), complete with antique furniture.After serving as a soldier during
World War I , Toepfer in 1918 returned to his home region in Hesse and resumed painting, often depicting the region in which he grew up. His realistimpressionist pictures are influenced by the works ofLovis Corinth ,Wilhelm Leibl ,Carl Schuch andKarl Blechen .Toepfer died in Idstein on
August 6 1955 .Literature
* Christel Lentz; Gerhard Lampe: "Der Maler Ernst Toepfer: Leben und Werk", 2002, ISBN 3000094598, ISBN 978-3000094590 [http://books.google.com/books?id=0JJ4AAAACAAJ&dq=isbn:3000094598]
External links
* [http://www.artnet.com/artist/575181/ernst-topfer.html Ernst Topfer on artnet]
* [http://www.runkel-lahn.de/gross/ausstellung/ausstellung_7.html Ernst Toepfer, ein großer nassauischer Maler]
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