Theodor Sander

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Theodor Sander (born January 14, 1858 in Flensburg , † February 12, 1935 in Berlin ) was a German landscape painter.

The son of a master nail smith first completed a two-year commercial apprenticeship in his hometown, followed by a three-year apprenticeship in lithography. Thanks to a scholarship from the city of Flensburg, Sander studied with Paul Thumann and Otto Knille at the Prussian Academy of the Arts in Berlin from October 1880 to summer 1883 . Sander continued his studies from October 26, 1883 at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich in the technical painting class.

After completing his studies, he returned to his hometown of Flensburg in 1886 and worked as a freelance artist. After two years he decided to move to Berlin for financial reasons.

He came to Berlin-Charlottenburg in 1890, where he married Lucie Storm, a daughter of the writer Theodor Storm . Sander worked as a draftsman for landscapes at the Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin . From 1892 to 1922 he taught nature painting at the Berlin School of Applied Arts and Crafts .

In 1882 he went on his first study trip to the Ekensund artists' colony . In 1900, 1922 and 1925 he visited the island of Rügen .

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