Balduin Wolff
German painter and chess player
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| Intro | German painter and chess player | |
| Places | Germany | |
| was | Chess player Painter | |
| Work field | Arts Sports | |
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| Birth | 15 July 1819, Kowary, Jelenia Góra County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland | |
| Death | 21 November 1907Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Government Region, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (aged 88 years) |
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(Hermann) Balduin Wolff (15 July 1819 – 21 November 1907) was a German painter of the Romantic period, and a chess player.
Born in Schmiedeberg im Riesengebirge (now Kowary), Silesia (then Prussia, now Poland), he graduated from a gymnasium of Hirschberg, and studied at Berlin University of the Arts (Universität der Künste Berlin) and Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf).
He drew a game with Louis Paulsen in a blindfold simultaneous display at Düsseldorf in 1862.