Ernst Toepfer

Life

From 1893 to 1895 Toepfer attended the drawing, painting and decorative arts school, a private art school run by H. Bouffier, where he was praised among other things for his services (" very good learning ability and pretty good skill, coupled with great diligence "). Then he studied until mid- 1898 at the Grand Ducal Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe, which was led by Leopold Graf von Kalckreuth. 1898 Toepfer changed for ten years at the Royal Academic College of Fine Arts in Charlottenburg, where he graduated in 1908 and made ​​his own studio opened.

Toepfer married Maria Theresa Klaus, whom he had met during a trip to Brandenburg, in Berlin in 1909. The couple moved in 1910 to around Idstein, Idstein in the Höerhof.

After serving as a soldier in the First World War, Toepfer came back to Idstein and went back to painting. Core of his works were pictures of his home. His realistic impressionist paintings were influenced by Lovis Corinth, Wilhelm Leibl, Carl Schuch and Karl Blechen.

He died in Idstein on August 6, 1955.

After Ernst Toepfer, a street was named in Idstein.