Wilhelm Trautschold

German painter
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IntroGerman painter
A.K.A.Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Trautschold
A.K.A.Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Trautschold
PlacesGermany
wasPainter Artist
Work fieldArts
Gender
Male
Genres:Portrait
Birth2 June 1815, Berlin, Margraviate of Brandenburg
Death7 January 1877Munich, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany (aged 61 years)
Star signGemini
Education
Academy of Arts, Berlin
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Biography

Portrait of Justus von Liebig

Wilhelm Trautschold (1815–1877) was a German portrait painter.

Trautschold was born in Berlin on 2 June 1815. He was trained at the Berlin Akademie der Kunste and in Düsseldorf. He lived in London from 1860.

His works are in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, and the Royal Society of Chemistry. One of his paintings of Justus von Liebig was used on a German 100 Reichsmark note in 1935.

He died in Munich on 7 January 1877. He was brother of paleontologist Hermann Trautschold.

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