Eugen Gustav Dücker (also ''Eugène Gustav Dücker''; , in Arensburg (now Kuressaare,

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) – 6 December 1916, in

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) was a

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painter, in the Romantic atyle, associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule.

Biography

He was born to Eduard Dücker (1813–1886), a master carpenter, and his wife, Amalie née Fischer (1810–1880). His younger sister, , also became a painter. His first drawing lessons were with the lithographer, . From 1858 to 1862, he was enrolled at the

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. There, he studied sculpture with , and landscape painting with

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. Upon graduating, he was awarded a six-year grant for a study trip through Europe. He made lengthy stops in Munich and

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, where he took lessons from

Karl Friedrich Lessing Karl Friedrich Lessing (15 February 1808, Breslau – 4 January 1880, Karlsruhe) was a German historical and landscape painter, grandnephew of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and one of the main exponents of the Düsseldorf school of painting. Biograp ...

. In 1864, he went to Düsseldorf, and would remain there for the rest of his life. He began taking students; notably the Norwegian landscape artist, Adelsteen Normann, and succeeded

Oswald Achenbach Oswald Achenbach (; 2 February 18271 February 1905) was a German painter associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. Though little known today, during his lifetime he was counted among the most important landscape painters of Europe. Thr ...

as the landscape instructor at the Kunstakademie in 1872. Two years later, he married Regina Schneeloch. In his later years, he was a member of the progressive artists' association,

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. His well known pupils at the Akademie included Heinrich Hermanns, Franz Korwan, Georg Macco,

Otto Modersohn Friedrich Wilhelm Otto Modersohn (22 February 1865, Soest – 10 March 1943, Rotenburg) was a German landscape painter. He was a co-founder of the Art Colony at Worpswede. Life In 1884, he began his studies at the Art Academy of Düsseldorf ...

Fritz Overbeck August Friedrich Overbeck, known as Fritz (15 September 1869 in Bremen – 8 June 1909 in Vegesack) was a German painter and engraver. Biography He was the son of the Technical Director at Norddeutscher Lloyd. After graduating from the lo ...

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, Heinrich Petersen-Angeln, Oskar Hoffmann and Carl Wuttke.

Bettina Baumgärtel Bettina Baumgärtel (born 1957) is a German art historian who is head of the painting collection of the Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf. She is a leading authority on the art of Angelica Kauffman and founded the Angelika Kauffmann Research Pro ...

: ''Die Düsseldorfer Malerschule und ihre internationale Ausstrahlung 1819–1918''. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, , Vol.2, pg.463 ff. Despite his career's roots in Germany, he spent much of his time in

, where he painted idyllic landscapes of the sea and the countryside. He also made numerous trips to Holland, Belgium, France and Italy. Perhaps his best known painting is '' Coastal landscape (Fishermen going home)''.

Gallery

File:Dücker Tiskre rand.jpg, Seashore at Tiskre (1866) File:Dücker Rügeni maastik.jpg, Rügen landscape (1869) File:Eugen Dücker Selbstporträt an der Ostsee.jpg, Self-portrait, by the Baltic Sea
(ca. 1900) File:Dücker Krabbenfischer am Ostseestrand.jpg, Crab Fisher on the Ostseestrand

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