Life
Plockhorst was born in Brunswick, Germany, where he took a five years’ education in lithography at the Collegium Carolinum. Then he trained to be a painter with Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld in Dresden in 1848, with Carl von Piloty in Leipzig and Munich and finally with Thomas Couture in Paris in 1853. In Munich, Plockhorst copied the pictures of Rubens and Tizian in the Old Pinakothek. He also took study travels to Belgium, the Netherlands and Italy. Then he settled in Berlin where he began to paint portraits, but he also proved his talent for religious themes with a large painting (“Mary and John returning from the grave of Christ”). From 1866 to 1869, he was a professor at the Grandducal Saxonian Art School (Großherzoglich-Sächsische Kunstschule) in Weimar, where the painter Otto Piltz was one of his pupils. Then Plockhorst returned to Berlin where he died in 1907.
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