Peter Philippi

Peter Philippi (30 March 1866, Trier - 17 August 1945, Rothenburg ob der Tauber) was a German portrait and genre painter.

[1] His primary instructors included Hugo Crola, Adolf Schill and Johann Peter Theodor Janssen.

Later, he was accepted into the master class of the history painter, Eduard von Gebhardt, who was inclined to religious subject matter, but this had no influence on him.

In 1923, together with Adolph Hosse [de] and several younger, local artists, he helped establish the Rothenburger Künstlerbund, for which the city provided a permanent exhibition space.

He participated in the Große Deutsche Kunstausstellung of 1937, which inspired him to publish The Little Town and Its People, a collection of his works that also featured his poetry and anecdotes about his models.

On his seventy-fifth birthday, in 1941, he was presented with the Goethe-Medaille für Kunst und Wissenschaft, and deemed to be "politically reliable".