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Horatio McCulloch was a Scottish landscape painter.
Paul Emil Jacobs was a German Orientalist painter and member of the Imperial Academy of Arts.
Jacobs was known for numerous paintings on Orientalist themes: harem beauties, picturesque Turks, and the slave market. He also painted scenes with religious and historical motifs.
Rudolf Höckner was a German Impressionist landscape and cityscape painter.
Adolf Konrad Walter Bock was a twentieth-century German painter. He is known as a marine painter.
Adolf Bock, as a sailor in the German Navy, in 1912 accompanied Emperor Wilhelm II on a voyage to the Mediterranean and received, as an artist, the support of the Kaiser. In the interwar period he carried out commissions for steamship companies, publishing houses and magazines. In Nazi Germany his work was also valued, and he received a professorship personally from Hitler. During the Second World War, the artist survived being on the port side of the sunken liner Wilhelm Gustloff and later created prints on the subject of the disaster.
Roger Chapelet, full name Albert Roger Édouard Chapelet, was a French marine painter.
Chapelet worked in the Navy Ministry, in 1927 he began painting, and in 1936 he was appointed an official marine painter and became a member of the Naval Academy. During and after World War II, Chapelet took part in numerous operations of the French Navy. During his service, he continued to paint various military operations and naval battles. After the war, he returned to civilian life and became an artist for several ship companies.
Chapelet is considered one of the greatest artists of the French Navy of the 20th century.
Patrick von Kalckreuth, born Patrick Dunbar, was a leading German maritime painter.
Patrick von Kalckreuth, born Patrick Dunbar, was a leading German maritime painter.
Carl Emil Rudolf Ludwig Becker was a German marine artist.
He was awarded gold medals at the International Art Exhibition of 1894, in Vienna, and the Große Berliner Kunstausstellung of 1896. Three years later, he was one of the co-founders of the Düsseldorfer Künstler-Vereinigung (artists' association). After the turn of the century, marine painting was heavily promoted by Kaiser Wilhelm II, who was attempting to make Germany a major sea power. As a result, the demand for Becker's paintings increased farther inland.
Erich Mercker was a German landscape, industrial and city painter and speed skater.
Paul Müller-Kaempff was a German painter, illustrator and lithographer. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.
Paul Müller-Kaempff was a German painter, illustrator and lithographer. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.
Franz Wilhelm Johann Bunke was a German landscape painter.
Wilhelm Eisenblätter was a German screenwriter and landscape painter.