Eduard Wilhelm Pose (9 July 1812 – 14 March 1878) was a German

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landscape painter associated with the

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Biography

He was born in Düsseldorf. His father, Ludwig Pose, was a decorative painter. As a boy, he accompanied him on his work throughout the Rhineland. During a visit to

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, where his father had received a commission from Prince Frederick, he decided to become a painter too. From 1829 to 1836, he attended the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and studied with the landscape painter,

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from 1832 to 1833. His first landscapes depicted the regions of

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and

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and received excellent marks. In 1836, he and several other students left the Kunstakademie, due to conflicts with its conservative director, Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow. He went to Munich and found a position in the studios of

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. An outbreak of

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led to him to move to Frankfurt am Main and find work painting the Eltz Castle. He returned to Munich in 1838. Shortly after, he exhibited his painting of

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in Brussels, where it was purchased by King Leopold I. He then returned to Düsseldorf, living with his sister and her husband, the architect , and travelling with other artists throughout the region. He spent the years 1842–1845 in Italy, mostly in Rome, where his palette brightened considerably. After 1845, he went back to Frankfurt am Main and became part of the circle of artists associated with Philipp Veit. In his later years, he was involved with the artists' colony at Kronberg im Taunus. He and his wife, Pauline (née Klotz, 1817–1867), made the acquaintance of Gustave Courbet during his visit to Frankfurt in 1858. Courbet used her as the model for his painting ''Lady of Frankfurt''. It is believed that Pose was originally in the painting as well, but was later erased. His exclusion has led to speculation concerning an affair between Pauline and Courbet.Excerpt from ''Looking at the Landscapes''
with a reproduction of the painting. Getty Publications, 2007 Pose died on 14 March 1878 in Frankfurt at the age of 65.

References

* ''Pose, Eduard Wilhelm''. In: Georg Kaspar Nagler: ''Neues allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon'', Vol.13, Schwarzenberg & Schumann, Leipzig,
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External links

ArtNet: More works by Pose.
* Wilhelm Füssli: "Eduard Wilhelm Pose" in, ''Die wichtigsten Städte am Mittel- und Niederrhein. Zweiter Band über rheinische Kunst''. Verlag des literarischen Comptoirs, Zürich und Winterthur 1843
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pose, Eduard Wilhelm 1812 births 1878 deaths Painters from the Kingdom of Prussia 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German landscape painters Kunstakademie Düsseldorf alumni Painters from Düsseldorf Düsseldorf school of painting

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