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

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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 Sokrat Vorobiev. 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,

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, and succeeded Oswald Achenbach 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, Malkasten. His well known pupils at the Akademie included

Heinrich Hermanns Heinrich Hermanns (19 May 1862 – 21 December 1942, Düsseldorf) was a German lithographer and landscape painter. He was also known for architectural paintings and vedute and was associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule. Biography Boe ...

Franz Korwan Franz Korwan, born Sally Katzenstein (27 October 1865, Alheim - 4 September 1942, in the internment camp at Noé, Haute-Garonne, near Toulouse) was a German-Jewish landscape painter and (a type of community administrator) on the island of Sylt. ...

, Georg Macco, Otto Modersohn, Fritz Overbeck, Edgar Meyer, 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 Proj ...

: ''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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