Theodor Rocholl, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Theodor Rocholl

German artist

Date of Birth: 11-Jun-1854

Place of Birth: Lichtenfels, Hesse, Germany

Date of Death: 13-Sep-1933

Profession: writer, painter

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Theodor Rocholl

  • Theodor Rocholl (1854–1933), German military painter and war artist. Rocholl was born in Sachsenberg (Waldeck) on 11 June 1854, the son of Rudolf Rocholl, the Lutheran theologian and philosopher.
  • He was a student in Munich in 1877, then at the Dresden Academy.
  • After a year, he moved to Munich where he studied historical painting under Karl von Piloty.
  • He completed his art studies at the Düsseldorf Academy where he developed his interest in military art under the influence of Wilhelm Camphausen; his contemporaries in this field were Carl Röchling and Richard Knötel.
  • He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.
  • The artist observed the Franco-Prussian War and the subsequent German army manoeuvres between 1883 and 1888; in 1890, he traveled to Russia to view the German Garde-Korps on manoeuvre.
  • Later in the decade, he was attached to the Turkish Army and covered the conflict in Thessalia in 1897 between the Turks and the Greeks; his sketches of the fighting were published the following year.
  • He covered the Boxer Rebellion in 1900 as the official artist of the German expeditionary force.
  • A decade later, he covered the fighting between Turkey and Albania. Many of his paintings depict German military scenes, especially the battles of the Franco-Prussian War.
  • One of his most famous pictures depicted King William at the Battle of Sedan, meeting his triumphant soldiers after the victory.
  • Rocholl also painted a large mural for the Evangelischen Padagogiums in Bad Godesberg. In his 60th year, he became a war artist covering the campaign on the Western Front.
  • His War Letters printed in 1916 in which he described the fear and destruction.
  • An autobiography of his life as a painter appeared in 1921.
  • He died in a streetcar accident in Düsseldorf on 14 September 1933, when he was 80.

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