Anton Hermann Stilke (29 January 1803,

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He had originally intended to devote himself to agriculture, but was attracted to art instead and began his studies at the Berlin Academy with Carl Wilhelm Kolbe. His first exhibition was held there in 1820. The following year, he transferred to the

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, where he studied with

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. He also worked as an assistant to , who was painting a "

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. It was left unfinished due to lack of resources. He later alternated between Düsseldorf and Munich, where he decorated the arcade at the Munich Hofgarten with several

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es. In 1827, he went to Northern Italy, then to Rome, until 1833 when illness forced him to go home. After a brief stay in Berlin, he returned to Düsseldorf and continued his studies with

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at the Kunstakademie and worked as a teaching assistant. During that time, he also received a commission to decorate the

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; creating murals of the "Six Knightly Virtues"; a project he completed in 1846. He went back to Berlin in 1850, and was named a professor at the academy in 1854. He had been a member there since 1835. He died in 1860, at the age of fifty-seven, and was interred at the St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof. His grave has not been preserved. One of the pupils he met at the Kunstakademie, Hermine Peipers, became his wife in 1835 and was known for her

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s. Their son, , was a bookseller and publisher.

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