Ludwig Ferdinand Neuhoff

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Ludwig Ferdinand Neuhoff (born February 6, 1870 in Barmen ; † June 11, 1905 in Bonn ) was a German landscape painter .

Ludwig Ferdinand Neuhoff was the son of the merchant and silk weaver owner Louis Neuhoff and his wife Laura Emma Neuhoff, b. Grote, born in pity .

From 1888 he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and then at the Grand Ducal Baden Art School in Karlsruhe with Gustav Schönleber .

In 1892 Ludwig Neuhoff got engaged to Wilhelmine Helene Emma Neese. After the wedding in June 1893, the newly weds visited Frankfurt am Main , Munich , Bozen , Innsbruck , Lake Garda and Capri . From May to December 1892 Neuhoff made a study trip to Italy and stayed in Capri in the Villa Giulia from July 1893 to winter 1896. In the autumn of 1895 he visited Rome and Terracina .

Neuhoff came to Düsseldorf in the summer of 1896 . Neuhoff lived in Munich since Christmas 1896 and exhibited his works in the Munich Glass Palace in 1898 . Neuhoff returned to Düsseldorf in 1898. He became a member of the Düsseldorf artists' association " Malkasten ".

Neuhoff visited the Italian Riviera in 1899 and stayed in Capri from June to November. In 1900 he toured the island of Rügen , Berlin , the Eifel and Kassel . In 1901 he visited Italy again.

He died at the age of 35 as a result of unsuccessful surgery.

The Kunstverein in Barmen, which posthumously exhibited 80 works by Ludwig Ferdinand Neuhoff in the Barmer Ruhmeshalle in 1906 , acquired his painting Last Sunbeam in 1907 and sold other works by Neuhoff in 1911 and 1912.

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SURNAME Neuhoff, Ludwig Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Barmen
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1905
Place of death Bonn