Emil Dill

Emil Dill (15 April 1861, Pratteln - 23 May 1938, Liestal) was a Swiss painter, watercolorist and art teacher.

The following year, he learned pattern drawing at Baur & Sohn, a strap and ribbon manufacturer, headquartered in Wuppertal.

[2] In 1885, he and his friend, Emil Beurmann, set out for Paris to enroll at the Académie Julian, where they planned to study with William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury.

On the advice of Lovis Corinth, Dill continued his education at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, where he worked with Ludwig von Löfftz.

[1] After a stay in Basel, he returned to Munich in 1892, where he studied architecture and structural engineering at the Königlich Bayerischen Technischen Hochschule.