Friedrich Martersteig

In 1829, a grant from Grand Duke Charles Frederick enabled him to attend the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied with Ludwig Richter and made copies of the Old Masters.

Upon graduating in 1834, thanks to another grant, he was able to continue at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he studied with Karl Ferdinand Sohn, Theodor Hildebrandt and Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow.

In 1848, he returned to Weimar and received a commission from Grand Duke Charles Frederick to create a decorative painting for Wartburg Castle.

[1] From 1853 to 1884, he was a drawing teacher at the "Sophienstift"; a girls' school established by Princess Sophie of the Netherlands.

In 1862, he was appointed President of the Allgemeine Deutsche Kunstgenossenschaft [de] (General German Art Cooperative).