Louis Douzette

Training under Hermann Eschke is recorded. The recorded working language is German. Places of work recorded in the authority are Berlin, Paris and Barth. Employment is recorded with Academy of Arts, Berlin. Work by Louis Douzette is recorded in the collections of Museo del Prado, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Art Gallery of New South Wales, National Museum in Warsaw and Alte Nationalgalerie. Distinctions recorded are honorary citizen of Barth.

He was descended from Huguenots that fled France in the 17th century. When he was seven, his family moved to Franzburg. At the age of fourteen, he graduated from secondary school and began working with his father's company, as a decorative painter. During slow periods, he was given drawing lessons by his father, who had attended the Prussian Academy of Arts as a boy. In 1852, they moved to Berlin. At the age of twenty-one, he became a student of Hermann Eschke. After 1860, he spent time painting along the Baltic coast, on Rügen and at Darß. He became a member of the Verein Berliner Künstler (artists' association) in 1863. Two years later, he married Louise Donner (1839–1890). They would have four daughters. During a visit to Paris, in 1878, he was influenced by the Barbizon School and took up painting en plein aire. His moody pictures of night landscapes earned him the nickname "Moonlight Douzette". He later became associated with the artists' colony in Ahrenshoop. From 1895 until his death, he lived in a villa in Barth, with his two youngest daughters. Later, they were joined by his third daughter and her husband, the painter Adolf Gustav Döring. In 1896, he was named a professor at the Prussian Academy. On the occasion of his seventy-sixth birthday, in 1910, the city of Barth granted him honorary citizenship. He died at his home, aged eighty-nine.

The following is established of origins and background. Born in 1834 at Tribsees. It is also recorded that louis Douzette died in 1924 at Barth. It is also recorded that louis Douzette is recorded at birth as Carl Ludwig Christoph Douzette.