Paul Eduard Crodel

Paul Eduard Crodel (7 September 1862, Cottbus - 28 July 1928, Dietramszell) was a German landscape painter and a co-founder of the Munich Secession.

He observed the practice of painting en plein aire and became involved in the private academy, in the suburbs north of Munich, that was operated by Bernhard Buttersack.

His fellow students there included Christian Landenberger, Otto Ubbelohde and Wilhelm Ludwig Lehmann [de].

[3] He died of a stroke, at the age of sixty-six, near Dietramszell and was interred at the Alter Zwölf-Apostel-Kirchhof [de] in Berlin with other members of his family.

[4] His daughter, Erna Dinklage [de] also became a painter, under his tutelage, and he promoted the career of his nephew, Charles Crodel.