Julius Kruchen

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Swiss alpine lake

Julius Kruchen (born October 10, 1845 in Düsseldorf ; † June 21, 1912 there ) was a German landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Kruchen studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1859 to 1863 . There were Josef Winter Gerst , Andreas and Karl Mueller , Ludwig Heitland , Heinrich Mücke and Karl Ferdinand Sohn his teachers. After graduating, Kruchen worked as a landscape painter and traveled to the Alpine countries. Kruchen lived in Düsseldorf. His son Medard (Medardus), who emerged as a landscape and still life painter, was born there in 1877 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Julius Kruchen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. See nos. 8040–8047 in the finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , website in the archive.nrw.de portal ( North Rhine-Westphalia State Archive )