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Ernst Toepfer

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Name
  
Ernst Toepfer

Role
  
Artist

Died
  
August 6, 1955, Idstein, Germany

Ernst Toepfer (4 June 1877 – 6 August 1955) was a German painter.

Toepfer was born in Wiesbaden, Hesse-Nassau. From 1893 to 1895, he attended the Zeichen-, Mal- und Kunstgewerbeschule, a private artist's school led by H. Bouffier, where he was commended for his diligence ("recht gutes Auffassungsvermogen und recht gutes Konnen, gepaart mit grosem Fleise"), then studied at the Grosherzogliche Akademie der bildenden Kunste in Karlsruhe, led by Leopold Graf von Kalckreuth, until mid-1898. Starting in 1898, Toepfer then studied at the Koniglich-Akademische Hochschule der bildenden Kunste in Berlin-Charlottenburg for ten years, from which he graduated in late 1908 as a master student with his own studio.

Toepfer married Maria Theresia Klaus, who he had met during a stay in Brandenburg, in Berlin in 1909; the couple then moved to Idstein in 1910 after finding a suitable house, the "Heerhof" (also "Hoerhof"; Obergasse 15), complete with antique furniture.

After serving as a soldier during World War I, Toepfer in 1918 returned to his home region in Hesse and resumed painting, often depicting the region in which he grew up. His realist impressionist pictures are influenced by the works of Lovis Corinth, Wilhelm Leibl, Carl Schuch and Karl Blechen.

Toepfer died in Idstein on 6 August 1955. A street in Idstein is named after him.

Literature

  • Christel Lentz; Gerhard Lampe: Der Maler Ernst Toepfer: Leben und Werk, 2002, ISBN 3-00-009459-8, ISBN 978-3-00-009459-0 [1]
  • References

    Ernst Toepfer Wikipedia