Ernst Erwin Oehme

Ernst Erwin Oehme studied at Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. Theodor Pallady, Suse Schmidt-Eschke and Hugo König are recorded as having studied under Ernst Erwin Oehme. The recorded working language is German. Work by Ernst Erwin Oehme is recorded in the collections of Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, National Museum Paleis het Loo, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Alte Nationalgalerie and Galerie Neue Meister.

He was born in Dresden. He was son and pupil of Ernst Ferdinand Oehme, a landscape painter. He attended the Dresden Academy of Art, and for a short time worked under Ludwig Richter, after which he made an artistic tour through Germany, Switzerland, England and France. His studies of nature during his travels were the main influence on his style. He died in Blasewitz.

He painted, in oils and watercolors, landscapes, architectural views, genre and portraits. The court theatre at Dresden was decorated by him. For several royal palaces, he painted a series of tapestries in watercolor, in imitation of Gobelin tapestry. In 1877 he executed three mural paintings representing the Rape of the Saxon Princes in 1415 in the banquet hall of the Albrechtsburg at Meissen, and in 1887–1889 painted the Declaration of Venezuela's Independence by Bolivar, a picture in heroic size for the House of Parliament at Caracas. For Queen Carola of Saxony, he produced a collection of views of Compiègne. Other notable works include Funeral in Spreewald, Stone Quarry in Saxon Switzerland, Bear Hunt (in watercolor) and The Valley of Montafont.

The authorities additionally record the headings Ernst E. Oehme, ernst oehme, E. His recorded language was German. He was the child of Ernst Ferdinand Oehme.