Hugo Knorr
Illustration — Knorr's Sunset at Königsberg • Illustration — The Königsberg Academy of Art Hugo Knorr (17 November 1834 – 29 September 1904) was a Prussian and German painter and teacher of art, specializing in landscape and marine art.
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Hugo Knorr
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- Born
- 1834 · Königsberg.
- Died
- 1904 · Karlsruhe.
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- painter · university teacher
- Fields
- painting
- Education
- Art Academy Königsberg
- Languages
- German
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Illustration — Knorr's Sunset at Königsberg • Illustration — The Königsberg Academy of Art Hugo Knorr (17 November 1834 – 29 September 1904) was a Prussian and German painter and teacher of art, specializing in landscape and marine art.
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Hugo Knorr studied at Art Academy Königsberg. The recorded working language is German. The field of work recorded is painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are landscape. Places of work recorded in the authority are Karlsruhe. Employment is recorded with Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
Knorr was born at Königsberg in East Prussia. In 1852, when he was almost eighteen, he entered the Königsberg Academy of Art, where he chiefly studied landscape painting. Later, his master was the painter August Behrendsen. In 1875 Knorr was appointed as a professor of art at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. He died at Karlsruhe in 1904.
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Many of Knorr's oil paintings are landscapes of the Norwegian coast, shown in all its seasons and moods. He is also known for drawings in chalk and charcoal to illustrate works of literature, including Esaias Tegnér's Frithjofssage (1867) and Carl Weitbrecht's Was der Mond bescheint (1872).
Hugo Knorr - Sonnenuntergang bei Königsberg
Hugo Knorr
caption: " Markgraf Christoph von Baden hebt das Fehmgericht in seinen Landen auf. Nach dem Oelgemälde von Hugo Knorr."
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- 1.Obituary in Die Christliche Kunst: Monatsschrift für alle Gebiete der christlichen Kunst und Kunstwissenschaft (1906), p. 122
- 2.Altpreussische Monatsschrift, vol. 9 (1872), p. 509
- 3.The Academy and Literature, vol. 5 (1874), p. 676
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