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Karl Friedrich Rudolf Sohn

Karl Friedrich Rudolf Sohn (1845 - 1908) was active/lived in Pennsylvania / Germany.  Karl Sohn is known for Academic style portrait history and figure painting, teaching.

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Karl Friedrich Rudolf Sohn (21 July 1845, Düsseldorf – 29 August 1908, Düsseldorf) was a German portrait painter in the Academic style.

His father was the landscape painter, Karl Ferdinand Sohn. After graduating from the Königliches Gymnasium [de], he was drafted for military service, but was rejected for "physical weaknesses." In 1863, he began studying engineering at the Polytechnic School in Karlsruhe. He completed his studies in 1866, but never practiced as an engineer. He returned to Düsseldorf and, shortly before his father's death, he began to study art with him.

From 1867 to 1870, he was a student at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he studied history painting with Karl Müller and figure painting with Julius Roeting. After the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War, he volunteered for a Hussar regiment, but was placed on reserve. It was then he began private studies with his cousin, Wilhelm Sohn, which eventually determined his choice to be a portrait painter.
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Facts about Karl Friedrich Rudolf Sohn

   Karl Friedrich Rudolf Sohn  Born:  1845 - Dusseldorf, Germany
Died:   1908 - Dusseldorf, Germany
Known for:  Academic style portrait history and figure painting, teaching
Name variants:  Carl Rudolph Sohn

Karl Friedrich Rudolf Sohn (21 July 1845, Düsseldorf – 29 August 1908, Düsseldorf) was a German portrait painter in the Academic style.

His father was the landscape painter, Karl Ferdinand Sohn. After graduating from the Königliches Gymnasium [de], he was drafted for military service, but was rejected for "physical weaknesses." In 1863, he began studying engineering at the Polytechnic School in Karlsruhe. He completed his studies in 1866, but never practiced as an engineer. He returned to Düsseldorf and, shortly before his father's death, he began to study art with him.

From 1867 to 1870, he was a student at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he studied history painting with Karl Müller and figure painting with Julius Roeting  ...  Displaying 750 of 3508 characters.

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