August Gotthold Dietrich Hugo, Baron von Blomberg, a poet and painter, was born at

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in 1820. He studied under Karl Wilhelm Wach in the Academy at Berlin, and under

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, and copied Rubens's works in the

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. He died at

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in 1871. Among his paintings may be mentioned: Blomberg_Titel

*''Das Domroschen.'' 1844. *''Neptune and Amymone''. 1847. *''Twenty-seven sketches from Dante''. *''A Town of the Middle-Ages''. *''The Merchant of Venice''. 1866. *''Benvenuto Cellini in Bngelsberg''. *''King William at Koniggratz''. 1867.

Life

Von Blomberg initially worked as a lawyer, then devoted himself to painting in the wax studio in Berlin and in 1847 went to Paris to

. Called back to arms service two years later, he continued his studies in Berlin until he decided in 1867 at the age of 47 to move to

in order to improve himself under

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leadership. His lively spirit, combined with a decided predilection for the ghostly, demonic and mystical, seldom allowed him to complete a work he had begun. But his 27 color sketches for Dante show a great talent for invention. The ornamental connection of his ideas was also to be emphasized, whereby his sense of color came in handy. In Berlin, Blomberg became a member of the "

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", a literary society that had been founded on December 3, 1827, under the name "Der Sonntags-Verein zu Berlin" and which had an influence on Berlin's literary life for over 70 years. As a poet he made himself known through a volume of pictures and romances (Breslau 1860) and through his fatherland poems Treu zum Tod (Berlin 1872). Among his publications on art history is the adaptation of the 3rd edition of Franz Kugler's History of Painting (Leipzig. 1867, 3 vols.). Blomberg and Kugler were both members of the Rütli, a subsidiary group from the "Tunnel über der Spree".

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