Theodor Albert Sprengel

Carl Christoph Wilhelm Theodor Albert Sprengel (30 September 1832, Wollershausen – 4 July 1900, Reval) was a Baltic-German painter, writer and professor, associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule.

He was born to the pastor, Georg Wilhelm Theodor Sprengel, and his second wife, Charlotte née Gnüge.

During this time he was awarded the title of "Free Artist" by the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg.

After 1866, he was a writing and drawing teacher at the Gustav Adolf Grammar School in Reval (Tallinn).

[2] As a writer, in addition to works on art, he produced children's books, novellas, poetry and travelogues.