Heinrich Lossow

Heinrich Lossow (10 March 1843 in Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria – 19 May 1897 in Schleissheim, Austria-Hungary) was a German genre painter and illustrator.

His father moved to Munich in 1820 to study under Ernst Mayer.

He first trained under his father but would go on to study under Karl Theodor von Piloty at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts.

[1] His was an illustrator for publishers, including one for an edition of William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor.

[2] Later in his life, he served as a curator at the Schleissheim Palace.