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Georg Wilhelm Degode (6 February 1862 – 26 November 1931) was a German landscape painter and photographer; associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule.
Degode was born in 
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* Hans Paffrath (Ed.): ''Lexikon der Düsseldorfer Malerschule 1819–1918.'' Vol.1: ''Abbema–Gurlitt'', Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf and the Galerie Paffrath. Bruckmann, 1997, * Anke Degode: ''Der Kaiserswerther Maler Wilhelm Degode'', Düsseldorf 2001,
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to a family of merchants, and was originally intended to follow in that profession. At the age of thirteen, he persuaded them to let him take drawing lessons from the curator at a local art gallery. After completing his secondary education, in 1881, he gained the support of his mother to attend the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
The Kunstakademie Düsseldorf is the academy of fine arts of the state of North Rhine Westphalia at the city of Düsseldorf, Germany. Notable artists who studied or taught at the academy include Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Blinky Palermo, Ma ...
. His initial teachers were Heinrich Lauenstein and Hugo Crola. Later, he studied with Carl Jungheim
Carl Jungheim (6 February 1830, Düsseldorf – 6 June 1886, Düsseldorf) was a German landscape painter, associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule.
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From 1847 to 1852, he studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Friedrich ...
, and Eugen Dücker
Eugen Gustav Dücker ( – 6 December 1916) was a German landscape painter, born a Russian Imperial subject on Saaremaa (then Governorate of Livonia, present-day Estonia), associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule.
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, as well as taking private lessons.
At first, he shared a home and studio with . In 1884, he took his first study trip through Eifel
The Eifel (; , ) is a low mountain range in western Germany, eastern Belgium and northern Luxembourg. It occupies parts of southwestern North Rhine-Westphalia, northwestern Rhineland-Palatinate and the southern area of the German-speaking Com ...
, from Malmedy
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On January 1, 2018, Malmedy had a total population of 12,654. The total area is 99.96 km2 which gives a population dens ...
to the Moselle Valley
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. Between then and 1927, he would make twenty-one such trips to the area; many in the company of his colleagues. In 1885, he joined the progressive artists' association, Malkasten
Malkasten (English: "Paintbox") is a progressive German artists' association, founded in Düsseldorf in 1848, during the German revolutions of 1848–1849, March Revolution. Since 1867, their headquarters have been in the Düsseldorf-Pempelfort, P ...
, and participated in their annual performances. He married Sophie Stüve, from Osnabrück
Osnabrück (; ; archaic English: ''Osnaburg'') is a city in Lower Saxony in western Germany. It is situated on the river Hase in a valley penned between the Wiehen Hills and the northern tip of the Teutoburg Forest. With a population of 168 ...
, in 1886. They had two sons and two daughters; the youngest boy and girl were twins.
After 1893, he became a regular visitor to the artists' colony in Willingshausen
Willingshausen is a municipality in the Schwalm-Eder district in Hesse, Germany.
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The community of Willingshausen lies in the Schwalm area.
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Willingshausen borders in the north on the town of Schwalmstad ...
. In 1898, he purchased a large home in Düsseldorf's Kaisersweth district, originally built as a clerical house in 1704. From 1833 to 1852, it was used as the Town Hall. Under his ownership, it served as a gathering place for most of the prominent artists in the city's art community, as well as writers, including Herbert Eulenberg. Now known as the , it belonged to his descendants until 2015.
In addition to his painting, he was an accomplished amateur photographer and a member of the Düsseldorfer Photovereinigung. He left approximately 3,500 photographic glass plates. He also published a book, ''Ginstergold. Erzählungen und Bilder aus der Eifel und dem Rheinland um 1900'' (Ginstergold: Stories and pictures from the Eifel and the Rhineland around 1900), in which his paintings and photographs were accompanied by local stories and data he had collected himself. It was republished in 2001.
Sources
* "Degode, Wilhelm", In: Ulrich Thieme (Ed.): ''Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart'', Vol.8: Coutan–Delattre. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1912, pg.550Online
* Hans Paffrath (Ed.): ''Lexikon der Düsseldorfer Malerschule 1819–1918.'' Vol.1: ''Abbema–Gurlitt'', Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf and the Galerie Paffrath. Bruckmann, 1997, * Anke Degode: ''Der Kaiserswerther Maler Wilhelm Degode'', Düsseldorf 2001,
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