Hans Looschen

His instructors there included Paul Thumann, Otto Knille, and Ernst Hildebrand.

He became a lifetime member of the Verein Berliner Künstler [de] (artists' association) in 1892.

In 1893, he began exhibiting regularly at the Große Berliner Kunstausstellung, and served a few terms as its president.

[3] Later, he worked with the "Preußischen künstlerischen Sachverständigenkammer" (roughly: chamber of art experts).

In 1916, he created a sensation when he visited the Halbmondlager, near Zossen, to paint six prisoners of war from North Africa.