Robert Parlow

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Robert Parlow at the age of 33

Robert Parlow (born February 26, 1835 in Stepenitz , † November 14, 1901 in Stettin ) was a German marine painter .

Sea battle between the gunboat "SMS Meteor" and the French Aviso "Bouvet" off Havana on November 12, 1870

Life

Robert Parlow's father, Karl Wilhelm Parlow, came from an old sailor family from the Stettiner Haff and ran his own ship, the brig "Alfred". As the eldest son, Robert took over his father's ship, having passed the helmsman's test in 1856 and the “boatman's test for all seas” in 1859. In 1864 he was able to have a new brig built in Swinoujscie according to his own designs, which he named " Prince Friedrich-Carl " with the approval of the patron saint .

After he had already started to draw during his travels across all seas, Parlow gave up his profession as a seaman and captain at the age of 35, went to Berlin and attended Professor Eschke's art school from 1870 to 1874 . One of his classmates was the marine painter Carl Saltzmann (1847–1923) , who later became very famous . A number of recognized good paintings were created here. One of his paintings was bought by Prince Adalbert in 1873 and another by Prince Friedrich Karl in 1874.

After completing his studies, Parlow went back to his family in Stepenitz, but could not make a living from painting alone and built up a new life in Stettin at "Baltic Lloyd" and in other fields of business related to shipping. During this time, he also worked on commissioned painting, which was artistically insignificant.

More demanding works were created again later. In 1891 and 1894, Kaiser Wilhelm II bought pictures by him, in 1895 the Duke of Mecklenburg and a year later the Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe bought pictures by Parlow. There were also numerous admirers of his painting among the bourgeois families of Szczecin.

Parlow had a heart condition as early as the 1980s, from which he died at the age of 66.

literature

  • Wilhelm Reuter: The seaman and painter Robert Parlow. In: Our Pommerland . Issue 3/1925, pp. 80-84.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death register Stettin I, 1901, entry no.3976
personal data
SURNAME Parlow, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German marine painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Stepenitz
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1901
Place of death Szczecin