Lothar von Seebach

He was born in Fessenbach, now part of Offenburg, and raised in Mannheim, where his father was a garrison officer.

In 1875, after completing his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe under Ferdinand Keller, he rejoined his family in Strasbourg, where they had lived since the end of the Franco-Prussian War.

Over the next twenty-five years, he made several study trips to England, Berlin and Paris, where he was influenced by the Fauvists.

A fiercely independent man who led a simple life, he turned down offers of professorships in Karlsruhe and Strasbourg.

[1] Seebach became a French citizen after World War I, but left Alsace in 1921 as the result of some professional conflicts.