Gustav Heinrich Julius Koken (8 August 1850, Hanover - 6 July 1910, Hanover) was a German painter and etcher. He was the nephew of Edmund Koken, a landscape painter, and the father of

Änne Koken Änne Koken (28 May 1885, Hanover - 19 April 1919, Hanover) was a German artist. In addition to landscapes and still-lifes, she designed stained glass, clothing and decorative book covers. She also worked as a commercial artist, notably for the fir ...

, a graphic designer. Hugo Thielen: ''Koken, (4) Gustav.'' In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: ', Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, , ().

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He was initially given art lessons by his uncle Edmund. After leaving Hanover for a time, to tour Germany, he enrolled at the Grand-Ducal Saxon Art School, Weimar in 1872. His primary instructor there was Theodor Hagen. In addition to painting, he studied etching and had his own studio in Weimar until 1878. That year, he returned to Hanover, where he became a member of the . Immediately after, he began a campaign for the creation of new galleries and a reorganization of the exhibition system. He was also involved in establishing and art museum at the . In order to gain further inspiration, he travelled frequently; visiting

Emsland Landkreis Emsland () is a district in Lower Saxony, Germany named after the river Ems. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Leer, Cloppenburg and Osnabrück, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (district of Steinfur ...

, the Teutoburg Forest, the

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and the Südheide (now a nature park). During this time, he was offered a professorship at the Kunstakademie Königsberg, but he declined because he wanted to remain in his homeland. Instead, he founded a private painting school in Hanover. He was a good friend of the opera singer, , who would often perform in his home. Together with the painters Hermann Schaper, and Ernst Pasqual Jordan, he decorated the singer's home, known as the "Salle Nollet". One month before his sixtieth birthday, he died suddenly from a heart attack. Following his death, a special exhibition was held.

Waldemar R. Röhrbein Waldemar R. Röhrbein (9 September 19355 October 2014) was a German historian. He worked as a museum director in Lower Saxony, his last post being from 1976 to 1997 at the Historisches Museum Hannover, and was president of the . He contributed to ...

: "Kunstgewerbemuseum im Leibnizhaus." In: ''Stadtlexikon Hannover.'' pg.377. In 2004, the

Historisches Museum Hannover (german: Historisches Museum Hannover) is an historical museum situated in Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony, Germany. The museum was founded in 1903 as the Homeland Museum of the City of Hanover (). Its collections are related to the histor ...

presented a retrospective of works by every member of the Koken family.

Helmut Knocke Helmut Knocke (born 1953) is a Germans, German History of architecture, architecture historian and author. Life Hemut Knocke studied architecture, with a special focus on the history of building, at the Leibniz University Hannover (LUH) in his ho ...

, Hugo Thielen: "2004." In: ''Hannover Kunst- und Kultur-Lexikon.'' pg.45.

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