Hermann Pleuer

Hermann Pleuer ( born April 5, 1863 in Schwäbisch Gmünd, † January 6, 1911 in Stuttgart) was a Swabian and Impressionist landscape painter. He has become known for its railway pictures of the Royal Württemberg State Railways.

Hermann Pleuer was born the son of a goldsmith manufacturers. After visiting the Stuttgart School of Applied Arts (1879-1881) and the Stuttgart Academy of Fine Arts (1881-1883) was followed by a study at the Academy in Munich. In 1886 he returned to Stuttgart back and fell first as bohemian, it produced images for Künstlerbohème and night images ( female nudes in the moonlight) and landscape images, before he fascinated turned to the technical development of industrialization and the " thrill of speed ," the railway painting. Pleuer found financial support from the patron Baron of Fachsenfeld. He died aged 47 of a pulmonary tuberculosis.

Pleuer heard with Otto Reiniger, Christian Landsberg and Heinrich von reins of the leading representatives of Impressionism in Southern Germany.