Hermann Pluddemann
Hermann Friedhold Pluddemann, German historical painter, was born at Colberg in 1809. His first master was Seig in Magdeburg, and in 1828 he entered the studio of Carl Joseph Begas in Berlin, and went in 1831 to Düsseldorf, to the atelier of Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow, with whom he remained six years. In company with Heinrich Mücke he completed a number of frescoes for Count Spee in his schloss at Heltorf, and in 1843 he painted a wall in the Rath-haus of Elberfield. He went in 1848 to reside at Dresden, where he died in 1868. Among his pictures may be named:
- Loreley 1833
- The Death of Roland, 1834
- Columbus Catching Sight of Land, 1836 (Berlin Nat. Gallery)
- The Battle of Iconium (fresco); after Lessing, 1839
- Columbus in La Rabida, 1845
- The Finding of Barbarossa's Corpse, 1846
- The Landgrave Ludwig, 1849
- Prince Hal and Falstaff 1860
- Henry at Canossa, 1863
References
This article incorporates text from the article "PLODDEMANN, Hermann" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.
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