Ludwig Brunow

He was the illegitimate child of the local sexton's daughter and spent most of his youth working as a shepherd but quickly caught up on his education when the opportunity arose.

First, he went to Lübz, completing an apprenticeship in carpentry, then found work as a journeyman in Rostock, where he began taking drawing lessons.

He won his first award in 1876 at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, followed that same year by the "Verdienstkreuz" of the House Order of the Wendish Crown of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

In his spare time, he was a member of a private chamber music quartet, along with the poet Karl Eggers (Friedrich's brother) and Heinrich Seidel.

An exhaustive list of his works may be found in the corresponding article on German Wikipedia Media related to Ludwig Brunow at Wikimedia Commons