Hugo von Blomberg

August Gotthold Dietrich Hugo, Baron von Blomberg, a poet and painter, was born at Berlin in 1820.

He studied under Karl Wilhelm Wach in the Academy at Berlin, and under Léon Cogniet at Paris, and copied Rubens's works in the Louvre.

Called back to arms service two years later, he continued his studies in Berlin until he decided in 1867 at the age of 47 to move to Weimar in order to improve himself under Ferdinand Pauwels leadership.

His lively spirit, combined with a decided predilection for the ghostly, demonic and mystical, seldom allowed him to complete a work he had begun.

As a poet he made himself known through a volume of pictures and romances (Breslau 1860) and through his fatherland poems Treu zum Tod (Berlin 1872).