Hermann Friedhold Pluddemann, German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 historical painter, was born at Colberg in 1809. His first master was Seig in Magdeburg

Magdeburg

Magdeburg , is the largest city and the capital city of the Bundesland of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Magdeburg is situated on the Elbe River and was one of the most important medieval cities of Europe....

, and in 1828 he entered the studio of Carl Joseph Begas in Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

, and went in 1831 to Düsseldorf

Düsseldorf

Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and centre of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region.Düsseldorf is an important international business and financial centre and renowned for its fashion and trade fairs. Located centrally within the European Megalopolis, the...

, to the atelier of Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow

Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow

Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow was a German Romantic painter.-Biography:He was born in Berlin and was the second son of the sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow....

, with whom he remained six years. In company with Heinrich Mücke

Heinrich Mucke

Heinrich Karl Anton Mücke was a prominent Realist painter known for his liturgical and genre paintings as well as frescoes, which still adorn some of Germany's ancient castles and cathedrals. His paintings are hung today in Germany's leading museums, including the National Gallery Berlin, Breslau...

 he completed a number of fresco

Fresco

Fresco is any of several related mural painting types, executed on plaster on walls or ceilings. The word fresco comes from the Greek word affresca which derives from the Latin word for "fresh". Frescoes first developed in the ancient world and continued to be popular through the Renaissance...

es for Count Spee in his schloss at Heltorf, and in 1843 he painted a wall in the Rath-haus of Elberfield. He went in 1848 to reside at Dresden

Dresden

Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area....

, where he died in 1868. Among his pictures may be named:

• Loreley 1833
• The Death of Roland
  Roland
  Roland was a Frankish military leader under Charlemagne who became one of the principal figures in the literary cycle known as the Matter of France. Historically, Roland was military governor of the Breton March, with responsibility for defending the frontier of Francia against the Bretons...
  
  , 1834
• Columbus
  Christopher Columbus
  Christopher Columbus was an explorer, colonizer, and navigator, born in the Republic of Genoa, in northwestern Italy. Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean that led to general European awareness of the American continents in the...
  
   Catching Sight of Land, 1836 (Berlin Nat. Gallery)
• The Battle of Iconium
  Battle of Iconium
  The Battle of Iconium was an unsuccessful attempt by the Seljuk Turks to capture the city of Iconium, modern day Konya. After sacking Ani and Caesarea in 1063 and 1067 respectively speaking , the Byzantine army in the East was in too poor a shape to resist the advance of the Turks...
  
   (fresco); after Lessing, 1839
• Columbus in La Rabida, 1845
• The Finding of Barbarossa
  Barbarossa
  Barbarossa, a name meaning red beard in Italian, may refer to any of these:-People:* Emperor Barbarossa or Frederick I , Holy Roman Emperor...
  
  's Corpse, 1846
• The Landgrave Ludwig, 1849
• Prince Hal and Falstaff
  Falstaff
  Sir John Falstaff is a fictional character who appears in three plays by William Shakespeare. In the two Henry IV plays, he is a companion to Prince Hal, the future King Henry V. A fat, vain, boastful, and cowardly knight, Falstaff leads the apparently wayward Prince Hal into trouble, and is...
  
  1860
• Henry at Canossa, 1863

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