Theodor Poeckh

Portrait of a Woman

Portrait of a Man

Theodor Poeckh (20 April 1839, Braunschweig – 5 January 1921, Karlsruhe) was a German portrait painter.

Biography

From 1860 to 1861, he was a student of Hans Fredrik Gude at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.[1][2] After that, he attended the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, where he studied with Carl Theodor von Piloty.

He remained in Munich, until he was appointed to a teaching position at the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe; left vacant by the death Ludwig des Coudres. There, he took charge of the newly created nature and classical painting classes, with Ernst Schurth [de] as an assistant. Some of his best known students were Christian Wilhelm Allers, Emil Schill [de], Pedro Weingärtner and Paul Schultze-Naumburg.

The Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe has a collection of his works.

References

1. Museum Kunstpalast: Künstler und Künstlerinnen der Düsseldorfer Malerschule (Selection: November 2016, PDF)
2. Findbuch 212.01.04 Schülerlisten der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen)

Further reading

• Thieme-Becker: Poeckh, Theodor. Ausgabe Seemann 1999, Vol.25/26 pg.176
• Leo Mülfarth: Kleines Lexikon Karlsruher Maler. Karlsruhe 1987, pp. 87–88, ISBN 3-7617-0250-7

External links

Media related to Theodor Poeckh at Wikimedia Commons