Wilhelm Krauskopf (1847 - 1921)

Wilhelm Krauskopf

Wilhelm Krauskopf is a German etcher and teacher. He studied painting in Dessau, Dresden and from May 1870 at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich. During his studies, he took part in the Franco-Prussian war. From 1874 to 1877 he worked at the Imperial German Institute in Rome. From 1892 he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe, from 1894 he became a professor of etching and engraving. In 1896 he received a small gold medal at the International Art Exhibition in Berlin. Wilhelm Krauskopf created numerous portraits, as well as landscapes in the form of etchings from his own drawings, as well as from the work of other artists.