Eugen Dücker

Eugen Dücker studied at Imperial Academy of Arts. Otto Modersohn, Toni Wolter and Victor Westerholm are recorded as having studied under Eugen Dücker. The recorded working language is German. The field of work recorded is painting. Places of work recorded in the authority are Düsseldorf. Employment is recorded with Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Work by Eugen Dücker is recorded in the collections of Art Museum of Estonia, Finnish National Gallery, Museum Kunstpalast, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. Distinctions recorded are Large gold medal of the Imperial Academy of Arts.

• Name — Eugen Dücker • Birth Name — Eugen Gustav Dücker • Born — 10 February 1841 • Birthplace — Arensburg, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire • Died — 6 December 1916 • Place of death — Düsseldorf, German Empire • Field — Landscape painting • Education — Alumni • Elected — Member Professor • Awards — Medal

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

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

Eugen Dücker worked in painting. He was employed by Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. He belonged to Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Imperial Academy of Arts and Society of Watercolour Artists, Vienna Künstlerhaus. He worked at Düsseldorf.

Eugen Dücker is recorded with the occupation university teacher. Recorded with the occupation landscape painter. Recorded as painter, university teacher, artist and docent.