About Paul Ritter

  • Biography

    The following is from Claudio Ritter, Munich, Germany, September 2003

    The painter Paul Ritter was my great-great-grand-uncle. In our family-chronicle there is no mention of his having traveled to northern America. Following is data from our family-archive:

    At the age of four years after a disease, he became deaf. For the rest of his life he always needed support when communcating; therefore it seems very doubtful to me, that he spent several years out of his home. As far as we know he traveled through Europe, i.e. Austria, Bohemia, Italy, Denmark and France, but only for a few months.

    He studied and worked together with his younger brother Lorenz, who was an
    excellent and famous etcher. Both, Paul ...

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