Paul Ernst Wilke: born on 11.07.1894 in Bremerhaven - died on 30.12.1971 in Lilienthal German marine painter. Apprenticeship in his father painting company as a decorative painter.

1913-14 studied at the art school in Bielefeld, 1914-15 in Dusseldorf. 1915-16 military service and hospital stay in Berlin, the first studies at the School of Applied Arts in Charlottenburg. 1916-18 Studies at the Bremen School of Applied Arts with Professors Kleinhempel and Müller-Scheeßel. 1918-21 continue studying in Berlin at the Academy of Fine Arts with Professors process and mirror as well as a studio student of Hans Baluschek. After that, a freelance painter in Bremerhaven, temporarily resident in Norderney and Helgoland, 1925-29 in Brem...