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Carl Von Perbandt
Carl von Perbandt (12 May 1832 – 6 April 1911) was German landscape painter and member of the Düsseldorf school of painting. He travelled to the United States in 1870 and spent most of his career in Northern California where he lived from 1876 until 1903. Many of his paintings were destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. However, the Oakland Museum and the Crocker Art Museum hold two of his landscapes and several more are held in private collections. Life and career Perbandt was born into an aristocratic German-speaking family in Langendorf, East Prussia. He studied painting under Andreas Achenbach and Carl Friedrich Lessing at the Düsseldorf Academy, although his determination to become an artist and his refusal to pursue a military career displeased his family. In 1859 he married Maria Treusch von Buttlar-Brandenfels. The couple had two sons, Conradin and Martin. After he served in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, Perbandt and his family went to live on his brother ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Prussia
East Prussia ; german: Ostpreißen, label=Low Prussian; pl, Prusy Wschodnie; lt, Rytų Prūsija was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1773 to 1829 and again from 1878 (with the Kingdom itself being part of the German Empire from 1871); following World War I it formed part of the Weimar Republic's Free State of Prussia, until 1945. Its capital city was Königsberg (present-day Kaliningrad). East Prussia was the main part of the region of Prussia along the southeastern Baltic Coast. The bulk of the ancestral lands of the Baltic Old Prussians were enclosed within East Prussia. During the 13th century, the native Prussians were conquered by the crusading Teutonic Knights. After the conquest the indigenous Balts were gradually converted to Christianity. Because of Germanization and colonisation over the following centuries, Germans became the dominant ethnic group, while Masurians and Lithuanians formed minorities. From the 13th century, East Prussia was part of the mon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Raschen
Henry Raschen (October 2, 1856August 24, 1937) was a German-born American painter. He did paintings of California landscapes and Native Americans. Early life Raschen was born on October 2, 1856, in Germany. He emigrated to the United States with his family in 1868, and he grew up in Fort Ross, California. Raschen attended the San Francisco Art Association, and he studied under Charles Christian Nahl in California. From 1875 to 1883, he studied in Germany. Career Raschen maintained a studio on Montgomery Street in San Francisco, where he painted Native Americans and California landscapes. Notable patrons included Richard T. Crane, King C. Gillette, E. H. Harriman, James Stillman, Isidor Straus, Charles Lee Tilden, and William Wrigley Jr. Another collector, Harry Flayderman, self-published a catalog of his work in 1958. His artwork can be seen at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City, the Oakland Museum of California, the American Museum of Western Art – The Anschutz Collectio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
