Heinrich Christoph Kolbe

Heinrich Christoph Kolbe (2 April 1771 – 16 January 1836) was a German painter.

He was part of the circle of Friedrich Schlegel and worked on the review "Europa".

In 1811 he returned to Düsseldorf, becoming the favorite portraitist of the Rhineland, painting 60 portraits in Barmen and Elberfeld alone.

From 1822 he was a professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, but he left in 1832 after a long dispute with the new director Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow.

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