Lüder Arenhold

[1] Arenhold probably joint the Imperial German Navy at the beginning of the 1870s, and left in 1881 as a Kapitänleutnant of the Seewehr to work as a painter.

In Hamburg he took lessons from the painters Heinrich Leitner and Franz Johann Wilhelm Hünten, 1886/87 he was a master student of Hans Gude at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin.

Arenhold preferred oil painting; subjects were merely ships of the Imperial Navy and historical fleets.

He was particularly interested in the pre-history of the Imperial Navy, including the Reichsflotte.

Die Bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker, Bd.

Radkorvette GROSSHERZOG VON OLDENBURG der Reichsflotte um 1850
Das Ostasiatische Geschwader der Preußischen Kriegsmarine 1859 bis 1862 Gemälde von Lüder Arenhold um 1905