Eugen Gustav Dücker ( – 6 December 1916) was a

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, born a Russian Imperial subject on

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), associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule.

Biography

He was born to Eduard Dücker (1813–1886), a master carpenter, and his wife, Amalie née Fischer (1810–1880). His younger sister, , also became a painter. His first drawing lessons were with the lithographer, . From 1858 to 1862, he was enrolled at the

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in Saint Petersburg. There, he studied sculpture with

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, and landscape painting with Sokrat Vorobiev. Upon graduating, he was awarded a six-year grant for a study trip through Europe. He made lengthy stops in Munich and

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, where he took lessons from

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, and succeeded Oswald Achenbach as the landscape instructor at the Kunstakademie in 1872. Two years later, he married Regina Schneeloch. In his later years, he was a member of the progressive artists' association, Malkasten. His well known pupils at the Akademie included Heinrich Hermanns, Franz Korwan, Georg Macco, Otto Modersohn,

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, Heinrich Petersen-Angeln, Oskar Hoffmann and Carl Wuttke.

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: ''Die Düsseldorfer Malerschule und ihre internationale Ausstrahlung 1819–1918''. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, , Vol.2, pg.463 ff. Despite his career's roots in Germany, he spent much of his time in Estonia, where he painted idyllic landscapes of the sea and the countryside. He also made numerous trips to Holland, Belgium, France and Italy. Perhaps his best known painting is '' Coastal landscape (Fishermen going home)''.

Gallery

File:Dücker Tiskre rand.jpg, Seashore at Tiskre (1866) File:Dücker Rügeni maastik.jpg, Rügen landscape (1869) File:Eugen Dücker Selbstporträt an der Ostsee.jpg, Self-portrait, by the Baltic Sea
(ca. 1900) File:Dücker Krabbenfischer am Ostseestrand.jpg, Crab Fisher on the Ostseestrand

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More works by Dücker
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