Christoffer Drathmann

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A deer in the forest clearing

Johann Christoffer Drathmann (born May 10, 1856 in Bremen , † April 30, 1932 in Berlin-Charlottenburg ) was a German hunting, animal and landscape painter.

Drathmann initially worked as a businessman. From 1878 he studied at the Grand Ducal Baden Art School in Karlsruhe . From 1880 he continued his self-taught training in the painting trade . He continued his studies privately in Munich from 1885. He then settled in Berlin in 1886 as a hunting, animal and landscape painter. He was particularly known as a hunting painter and was nicknamed deer draftsman . He often visited the Jasnitz hunting grounds in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district , and went on study trips to Denmark and Russia . Since 1885 he exhibited his works in Berlin art salons, they found buyers in the circles of collectors of hunting painting.

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SURNAME Drathmann, Christoffer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Drathmann, Johann Christoffer (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hunting, animal and landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 1932
Place of death Berlin-Charlottenburg