Samuel Theodor Gericke

Samuel Theodor Gericke or Gerike (1665-1730) was a German painter.

Born in Spandau in 1665, he became at first a student of Rutger van Langevelt, and later of Gedeon Romandon.

In 1694 he went to Rome to get prints, books, drawings and plaster casts for the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin, which would be established in 1696.

Gericke returned to Berlin in 1696 and was appointed court painter.

[1] He translated De Arte Graphica, the famous 1668 poem by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy, into German in 1699.