The following was submitted by his great-granddaughter from Berlin, Germany:
Born on October 15, 1857, the son of a tailor. After the war of 1870/71, a French Officer, living at his parents' house noticed the young boy's talent and gave him some watercolors.

In 1875 he graduated from high school and began his studies in liberal arts at Halle University. Subsequently he worked as a teacher, also obtaining a Ph.D. in French. Not satisfied with the life of a teacher, he went to Berlin and began a course of study at the "Hochschule Fuer Bildende Kuenste" (until 1885), with the financial support of his brother and sister.

In 1895 he found full employment and married Marie Cramer von Clausbruch.

Hermann Seeger died on February 23, 1945 before he could escape from the Russians, while his wife made her way to Berlin, where she died in 1947, from the consequences of harsh conditions.

Hermann Seeger was a German genre, portrait, and figural landscape painter who also created a variety of prints and engravings. He began his training in Berlin under the tutelage of Thumann and Gussow at the Berlin Academy.

Seeger remained in Berlin after his schooling but his paintings were popular throughout Germany. One can find examples of his work in the Museum of Kaiser-Friedrich and several other private and public collections in Germany.

Hermann Seeger was born in 1857 in Halberstadt, Germany. He developed an artistic talent at a young age, but initially studied philology in Halle. He received his doctorate in Old French and worked as a teacher in Halberstadt. Seeger was not fulfilled by teaching. Seeger instead decided, with the financial support of his siblings, to undertake a second degree at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin with Karl Gussow and Paul Thumann. There he met his future wife Marie Cramer von Clausbruch, with whom he had four children: Conrad, Reinhart, Hildegard and Ilse. In 1894, Seeger finally received a director's assistant position at the royal university. Seeger is particularly known for his dune landscapes in the Baltic Sea. He was particularly taken with the Nordic coastal landscape with its gentle dunes, thick grass and cloud-covered skies. His paintings are atmospheric snapshots of these beach stays, in which he preferred to portray his two daughters Hildegard and Ilse.