Wilhelm Trautschold
Wilhelm Trautschold (2 June 1815 – 7 January 1877) was a German portrait painter. Trautschold was born in Berlin on 2 June 1815. He was trained at the Berlin Akademie der Kunste and in Düsseldorf.
Also recorded as Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Trautschold
Wilhelm Trautschold
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- Name
- Wilhelm Trautschold
- Born
- 2 June 1815
- Birthplace
- Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
- Died
- 7 January 1877
- Place of death
- Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria
- Education
- Berlin Akademie der Kunste
- Occupation
- Portrait painter
- Nationality
- Germany and Kingdom of Prussia.
- Fields
- portrait.
- Movements
- Düsseldorf school of painting.
- Teachers
- Karl Ferdinand Sohn.
- Languages
- German.
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Biography
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He lived in London from 1860. His works are in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, and the Royal Society of Chemistry. One of his paintings of Justus von Liebig was used on a German 100 Reichsmark note in 1935. He died in Munich on 7 January 1877. He was brother of paleontologist Hermann Trautschold. • Illustration — Portrait of Justus von Liebig • Illustration — Banknote after the above portrait of Justus von Liebig • Illustration — Trautschold liebig laboratorium (1841)
Wilhelm Trautschold studied at Academy of Arts, Berlin. Training under Karl Ferdinand Sohn is recorded. The recorded working language is German. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. The authority associates the name with Düsseldorf school of painting. Places of work recorded in the authority are Düsseldorf, Liverpool and Berlin. Work by Wilhelm Trautschold is recorded in the collections of Victoria and Albert Museum, National Portrait Gallery, Bavarian State Painting Collections, Williamson Art Gallery and Museum and Wellcome Collection.
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Places of activity recorded by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: Düsseldorf, Gießen, Liverpool, Berlin, London and Edinburgh.
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• Name — Wilhelm Trautschold • Born — 2 June 1815 • Birthplace — Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia • Died — 7 January 1877 • Place of death — Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria • Education — Berlin Akademie der Kunste • Occupation — Portrait painter • Relatives — Hermann Trautschold
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Wilhelm Trautschold (1815 – 1877) is described as a painter and lithographer in the authority records of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. Wilhelm Trautschold was born in 1815 in Berlin and died in 1877 in Munich.
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