Paul Paeschke

Paul Paeschke was a German Impressionist painter and printmaker of the late 19th and early 20th century who was involved in the development of classical modernism. He worked during a time when one art movement was replaced by another, and the different styles often worked in parallel, such as Impressionism and Symbolism, Fauvism, Expressionism, and Surrealism.

Paeschke studied from 1900-06 painting at the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin, where he was a master’s student of Professor Karl Köpping (1848-1914), well-known for his etchings and decorative glasses (Köpping glasses). He undertook numerous study trips and exhibited since 1905. From the outbreak of World War I, Paeschke participated as a volunteer until late 1918. During World War II, he worked as an art teacher in Brandenburg until he died in 1943. He was a close friend of well-known painter Lovis Corinth and his wife Charlotte Berend-Corinth.

Paeschke’s strength was his etchings, and his main motif was the life in the streets of Berlin and other cities. The submitted painting shows a scene of the International Long Distance Rowing Regatta Quer durch Berlin (Across Berlin).