Carl Becker (marine painter)

Carl Emil Rudolf Ludwig Becker (31 August 1862, Hamelin – 12 February 1926, Hamburg) was a German marine artist.

He attended the realschule there, and received his first art lessons from the marine painter, Heinrich Leitner [de].

Until 1893, he was a student of the landscape painter, Eugen Dücker,[1] He also studied engraving and etching with Carl Ernst Forberg.

He was awarded gold medals at the International Art Exhibition of 1894, in Vienna, and the Große Berliner Kunstausstellung of 1896.

After the turn of the century, marine painting was heavily promoted by Kaiser Wilhelm II, who was attempting to make Germany a major sea power.