Oscar Eschke
Hermann Oscar Eschke (born May 28, 1851 in Berlin , † March 28, 1892 in Chicago ) was a German marine and landscape painter .
Oscar Eschke is a brother of Richard Eschke and was a student of his father Hermann Benjamin Eschke in Berlin. Oscar Eschke mainly painted sea coast landscapes, including Rügen, Mallorca and the English coast. In 1875 he took part in a sea voyage to China (observation of the Venus passage), later he moved to the USA and married the seamstress Emma Zschucke on July 4, 1889 in Chicago. Oscar Eschke was buried in the Waldheim Cemetery in Chicago.
Selection of paintings by Oscar Eschke
- Palma on the island of Mallorca at sunset
- Penang coast - sunset
- The Fratelli rocks in the Mediterranean Sea, on the African coast
- Oderufer
- Landscape from Mecklenburg
literature
- Bötticher: 19th century painters ,
- Hansen, Hans-Jürgen: German marine painters . Oldenburg (Stalling-Verlag) 1977,
- Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, 6th edition 1904.
Web links
Commons : Oscar Eschke - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ Baptismal register Sophienkirche, No. 102/1851
- ↑ Deaths 1878–1922 in Cook County, Illinois (ancestry.de)
- ↑ ancestry.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eschke, Oscar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Eschke, Hermann Oscar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German marine and landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 28, 1851 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 1892 |
| Place of death | Chicago |