Rudolf Hellgrewe
Illustration — Village on the Palau Islands, c.1908 Rudolf Hellgrewe (6 October 1860 – 1935) was a German landscape painter and illustrator. He taught for a long time at the Kunstgewerbemuseum (Museum of Decorative Arts) in Berlin. He is the most famous painter of Germany's colonies.
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Rudolf Hellgrewe
Rudolf Hellgrewe · Kriegsbilder aus dem Araberaufstand in Deutsch-Ostafrika. Mit einem Vorwort von H. von Wissmann by Behr, H.F. von. Leipzig, F.A. Brockhaus, 1891. Online · Public domain
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- 1860 · Czarne.
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- Germany
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- painter · writer · illustrator
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- German
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Born at Czarne in 1860, died in Berlin in 1926.
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Rudolf Hellgrewe - German fort at Mpuapua (1890)
Rudolf Hellgrewe · Kriegsbilder aus dem Araberaufstand in Deutsch-Ostafrika. Mit einem Vorwort von H. von Wissmann by Behr, H.F. von. Leipzig, F.A. Brockhaus, 1891. Online
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1860
Rudolf Hellgrewe was born on 6 October 1860.
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Rudolf Hellgrewe died on 5 September 1926.
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