Carl Johann Friedrich Toeche

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Mountain landscape
with a lake and a shepherd

Carl Johann Friedrich Toeche (* 1814 in Potsdam , † 1890 in Zurich ) was a German landscape painter .

Life

Toeche studied landscape painting with Carl Blechen at the Royal Prussian Academy of the Arts in Berlin from 1833 to 1837 . In 1836 he took part in the exhibition of the Prussian Academy of the Arts in Berlin. Around 1837/38 he was in Paris and studied in Léon Cogniet's studio . In 1838/39 Toeche traveled through Switzerland and Italy, in the summer of 1839 he stayed in Rome. From around 1850 Toeche was based in Zurich and was a teacher of landscape painting.

literature

  • Frauke Josenhans: Toeche, Carl Johann Friedrich (daughters, Carl Johann Friedrich) . In: Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich (ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital . Volume 1: 1793-1843 . De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-029057-8 , pp. 292-293.
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personal data
SURNAME Toeche, Carl Johann Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam
DATE OF DEATH 1890
Place of death Zurich