Count Georg Friedrich Armand

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(5 October 1836 in

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- 19 August 1898 in

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) was owner of Castle

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and a member of the

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Life

Decken was the son of

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Adolphus

and Louise von Wallmoden. He married in 1866 in Schlobitten Marie zu Dohna-Schlodien. She grew up in Mallmitz in

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. The couple had five children.Herwart and Thassilo von der Decken, ''Stammtafeln der Familie von der Decken (The Pedigrees of the Family von der Decken),'' 1994 p. 34-35 Before 1890 count von der Decken was

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at the Hanoverian Embassy in Paris. Here he had the opportunity to deepen his technic in painting. He was party leader of the

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since 1890 and distinguished as a political opponent of

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and the

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n supremacy in the

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. From 1890 until his death he was a member of the

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for the

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. He was highly musical, painted large-scale oil paintings and created wooden sculptures. His motives were in accordance with the prevailing taste, romantic landscapes and figures from Greek heroic legend. In the church of

there are still his oil paintings: the altar piece and the twelve disciples of Christ in life-size.Thassilo von der Decken, ''Anmerkungen zu den Stammtafeln der Familie von der Decken (Notes on the Pedigrees of the Family von der Decken)'', Stade 1998, p. 275-276

References

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