August Becker (painter)

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in German. (September 2016) Click [show] for important translation instructions.

Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 2,076 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at [[:de:August Becker (Maler)]]; see its history for attribution.
You may also add the template {{Translated|de|August Becker (Maler)}} to the talk page.
For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

August Becker (27 January 1821 – 19 December 1887) was a German landscape painter.

Biography

Becker was born in Darmstadt, where he studied under Schilbach, and afterwards at Düsseldorf, and in 1844 traveled in Norway, Switzerland, the Tyrol, and the Scottish Highlands. At Balmoral he instructed the British princesses in landscape painting. His pictures of mountain scenery are particularly valued; they include: “Evening in the Bernese Oberland” (1860 and 1867); “Norwegian Tableland” (1861); and “The Kaisergebirge in the Tyrol” (1864). He died in Düsseldorf.

He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.

Notes

This article includes a list of references, related reading, or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. Please help improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (July 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

References

Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Becker, August (painter)" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.

This article about a German painter is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Authority control databases
International	ISNI VIAF FAST WorldCat
National	Germany United States Czech Republic Norway
Artists	ULAN RKD Artists Musée d'Orsay
People	Deutsche Biographie DDB
Other	IdRef

Biography

See also

Notes

References