Eugen Dücker

Eugen Dücker
Dücker in 1885
Born
Eugen Gustav Dücker

10 February [O.S. 29 January] 1841
Arensburg, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire
Died6 December 1916
Düsseldorf, German Empire
NationalityBaltic German
EducationMember Academy of Arts (1868)
Professor by rank (1873)
Alma materImperial Academy of Arts (1862)
Known forpainting
AwardsBig Gold Medal of the Imperial Academy of Arts (1862)

Eugen Gustav Dücker (also Eugène Gustav Dücker; 10 February [O.S. 29 January] 1841 – 6 December 1916) was a Baltic German painter, in the Romantic style, associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule.

Biography

He was born to Eduard Dücker (1813–1886), a master carpenter, and his wife, Amalie née Fischer (1810–1880). His younger sister, Marie [de], also became a painter. His first drawing lessons were with the lithographer, Friedrich Sigismund Stern [de].

From 1858 to 1862, he was enrolled at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg. There, he studied sculpture with David Jensen, and landscape painting with Sokrat Vorobiev. Upon graduating, he was awarded a six-year grant for a study trip through Europe. He made lengthy stops in Munich and Karlsruhe, where he took lessons from Karl Friedrich Lessing.

In 1864, he went to Düsseldorf, and would remain there for the rest of his life. He began taking students; notably the Norwegian landscape artist, Adelsteen Normann, and succeeded Oswald Achenbach as the landscape instructor at the Kunstakademie in 1872. Two years later, he married Regina Schneeloch.[1] In his later years, he was a member of the progressive artists' association, Malkasten.

His well known pupils at the Akademie included Heinrich Hermanns, Franz Korwan, Georg Macco, Otto Modersohn, Fritz Overbeck, Edgar Meyer, Heinrich Petersen-Angeln, Oskar Hoffmann and Carl Wuttke.[2] Despite his career's roots in Germany, he spent much of his time in Estonia, where he painted idyllic landscapes of the sea and the countryside. He also made numerous trips to Holland, Belgium, France and Italy.

Perhaps his best known painting is Coastal landscape (Fishermen going home).

  • Seashore at Tiskre (1866)
    Seashore at Tiskre (1866)
  • Rügen landscape (1869)
    Rügen landscape (1869)
  • Self-portrait, by the Baltic Sea (ca. 1900)
    Self-portrait, by the Baltic Sea
    (ca. 1900)
  • Crab Fisher on the Ostseestrand
    Crab Fisher on the Ostseestrand

References

  1. ^ Rudolf Theilmann: "Die Schülerlisten der Landschafterklassen von Schirmer bis Dücker", In: Wend von Kalnein: Die Düsseldorfer Malerschule. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9, pg.144.
  2. ^ Bettina Baumgärtel: Die Düsseldorfer Malerschule und ihre internationale Ausstrahlung 1819–1918. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9, Vol.2, pg.463 ff.

Further reading

  • Dücker, Eugen Gustav. In: Wilhelm Neumann: Lexikon baltischer Künstler. Riga 1908, pg.37 f.
  • Walter Cohen: "Dücker, Eugène Gustav". In: Ulrich Thieme (Ed.): Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, Vol.10: Dubolon–Erlwein. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1914, pg.52 (Online)
  • Kuno Hagen: Lexikon deutschbaltischer bildender Künstler. 20. Jahrhundert, Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne, 1983, ISBN 3-8046-0101-4, pg.33
  • "Eugen Dücker",' In: Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexikon der Düsseldorfer Malerschule 1819–1918. Vol.1: Abbema–Gurlitt, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Bruckmann, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7654-3009-9, pp. 293–298
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