Christian Ludwig Bokelmann

Christian Ludwig Bokelmann (4 February 1844 in St.Jürgen, near Bremen – 14 May 1894 in Berlin) was a German genre painter in the Realistic and Naturalistic styles; associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule.

[1] After his father's death in 1868, he followed his true inclinations and enrolled at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he studied with Ludwig Knaus until 1871.

[2] In 1873, he had his first major showing at the World Exposition in Vienna and, the following year, began exhibiting regularly at the Prussian Academy of Arts.

During the 1880s, he undertook an extensive study trip through the marshlands of North Friesland;[2] inspired by the "Volkskunde" (ethnographic) approach to painting, pioneered by Rudolf Jordan.

He died after falling off a ladder in his studio, while attempting to hang a laurel wreath that had been given to him by his students on the occasion of his 50th birthday.