Theodor Poeckh (20 April 1839, Braunschweig5 January 1921, Karlsruhe) was a German portrait painter.
Biography From 1860 to 1861, he was a student of Hans Fredrik Gude at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.Museum Kunstpalast: Künstler und Künstlerinnen der Düsseldorfer Malerschule (Selection: November 2016, PDF)Findbuch 212.01.04 Schülerlisten der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen) After that, he attended the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, where he studied with Carl Theodor von Piloty.
He remained in Munich, until he was appointed to a teaching position at the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe; left vacant by the death Ludwig des Coudres. There, he took charge of the newly created nature and classical painting classes, with as an assistant. Some of his best known students were Christian Wilhelm Allers, , Pedro Weingärtner and Paul Schultze-Naumburg.
The Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe has a collection of his works.
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Further reading Thieme-Becker: Poeckh, Theodor. Ausgabe Seemann 1999, Vol.25/26 pg.176 Leo Mülfarth: Kleines Lexikon Karlsruher Maler. Karlsruhe 1987, pp. 87–88,
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