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Paul Ritter

Paul Ritter (1829 - 1907) was active/lived in Vermont / Germany.  Paul Ritter is known for Classical landscape, interior scene and history painting.

Biography photo for Paul Ritter
The following is from Claudio Ritter, Munich, Germany, September 2003

The painter Paul Ritter was my great-great-grand-uncle. In our family-chronicle there is no mention of his having traveled to northern America. Following is data from our family-archive:

At the age of four years after a disease, he became deaf. For the rest of his life he always needed support when communcating; therefore it seems very doubtful to me, that he spent several years out of his home. As far as we know he traveled through Europe, i.e. Austria, Bohemia, Italy, Denmark and France, but only for a few months.

He studied and worked together with his younger brother Lorenz, who was an
excellent and famous etcher. Both, Paul and Lorenz learned and studied with C. Heideloff in Nurnberg, a famous architect and art conservator of that time. In the 1850's, they both first worked in Stuttgart, then in Berlin and settled in their homecity of Nurnberg about 1860 and worke   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3027 characters.]  Artist bio

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Paul Ritter


   Keywords 
Art Method
  • Easel Painting
  • Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
Art MediaArt StyleArt SubjectGeography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Europe
  • Germany Before 1900
  • South America
  • White Mountains, New Hampshire
Art School
  • Dusseldorf Art Academy, Germany, Student
Chronology
  • Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Added Description
  • Art Educator: Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
  • Deaf Artist
  • Snowscene Specialty

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