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Theodor Gustav Alwin Adolf Maennchen (7 September 1860,Rudolstadt - 30 March 1920,Düsseldorf) was a German landscape andgenre painter.
He was born to Carl Maennchen, a Mastertanner, and his wife, Emilie née Güntsche. His younger brother,Albert [de], also became a painter.
After serving an apprenticeship as adecorative painter, he spent hisjourneyman years wandering through Germany and Austria and plying his trade. During this extended period, he also spent some time at theDresden School of Applied Arts [de] (1878-1879), and took night classes at the teaching institute of theArts and Crafts Museum [de] in Berlin (1880–1883). In 1883, he became a full-time student at theBerlin University of the Arts, which he attended until 1888. His instructors there includedJulius Ehrentraut [de],Paul Thumann,Otto Knille andEugen Bracht.
He continued to work as a decorative painter while studying and, upon graduating, was able to make a study trip to Italy and North Africa. He travelled whenever possible; visiting Switzerland, the Netherlands and France. In Paris, he attended theAcadémie Julian, where he took lessons fromJules-Joseph Lefebvre andTony Robert-Fleury.
In 1896, he was awarded a small gold medal at theGroße Berliner Kunstausstellung. He received another gold medal at theExposition Universelle (1900), and held a major exhibition at theGlaspalast in 1901.
From 1889 to 1893, he was a teacher at theBurg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design inHalle, then taught at theBaugewerkschule [de] inDanzig until 1901. The following year, he was named a Professor and head of the drawing classes at theKunstakademie Düsseldorf.[1] He held those positions until 1918.
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