August Becker - Artist Info

About August Becker

  • Biography

    August Becker (27 January 1821, Darmstadt - 19 December 1887, Düsseldorf) was a German landscape painter; associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule.

    Life and work
    He began his studies in 1837, with the court painter, Johann Heinrich Schilbach. His first study trips took him through Fischbachtal, Rüdesheim and the Nahe region. In 1840, he attended the landscape painting classes taught by Johann Wilhelm Schirmer at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. He remained there after completing his courses, because Düsseldorf provided a profitable market for his art
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    In 1844 and 1847, together with August Leu [de] and Georg Saal, he visited Norway; painting a series of fjordscapes. In 1854, he stayed in London for several weeks to study t...

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