Poppe Folkerts - Artist Info

About Poppe Folkerts

  • Biography

    Poppe Folkerts, a German marine and landscape painter, was a native from the East Frisian island of Norderney. From 1897 to 1900 he studied under Carl Saltzman (1847-1923), which was followed by another year of studies under Friedrich Kallmorgen (1856-1924), from 1902 to 1903. A master student of Ludwig Dettmann (1865-1944) he finally graduated at the Academy in Königsberg in 1903.

    Three years later he joined the artists' association in Kiel and specialized in the genre of marine paintings. In 1909/10 Poppe Folkerts went to Paris, in order to study the collections in the Louvre as well as the works of Impressionists such as Monet and Manet. Folkerts' extensive artistic output includes painting...

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