Carl Röchling was a German

Germans

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 painter

Painting

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 and illustrator

Illustrator

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 known for his representation of historical military

Military

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 themes.

Life

Röchling was born in Saarbrücken

Saarbrücken

Saarbrücken is the capital of the state of Saarland in Germany. The city is situated at the heart of a metropolitan area that borders on the west on Dillingen and to the north-east on Neunkirchen, where most of the people of the Saarland live....

, part of the Prussia

Prussia

Prussia was a German kingdom and historic state originating out of the Duchy of Prussia and the Margraviate of Brandenburg. For centuries, the House of Hohenzollern ruled Prussia, successfully expanding its size by way of an unusually well-organized and effective army. Prussia shaped the history...

n Rhine Province

Rhine Province

The Rhine Province , also known as Rhenish Prussia or synonymous to the Rhineland , was the westernmost province of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Free State of Prussia, within the German Reich, from 1822-1946. It was created from the provinces of the Lower Rhine and Jülich-Cleves-Berg...

, son of Friedrich Röchling, a judiciary worker, and Angelika Stoll. He studied from 1875 to 1880 in the Karlsruhe

Karlsruhe

The City of Karlsruhe is a city in the southwest of Germany, in the state of Baden-Württemberg, located near the French-German border.Karlsruhe was founded in 1715 as Karlsruhe Palace, when Germany was a series of principalities and city states...

 Academy of Arts (Kunstschule) with Ludwig des Coudres

Ludwig des Coudres

Ludwig des Coudres was a German historical, portrait, and genre painter.He was born at Cassel in 1820, and pursued his first studies under J. von Schnorr, at the Academy of Munich...

 and Ernst Hildebrand and later in the Academy of Arts of Berlin

Akademie der Künste

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 (Akademie der Künste).

While in Berlin, he was a pupil of the great master painter Anton von Werner, with whom he participated in the creation of various panoramic painting

Panoramic painting

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s such as Der Schlacht von Sedan ("The Battle of Sedan

Battle of Sedan

The Battle of Sedan was fought during the Franco-Prussian War on 1 September 1870. It resulted in the capture of Emperor Napoleon III and large numbers of his troops and for all intents and purposes decided the war in favour of Prussia and its allies, though fighting continued under a new French...

"). Later he became well-known for his independent work of historical and military paintings in the turn of the 19th century. He died on May 6, 1920 in Berlin

Berlin

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.

Works

Among Röchling's most famous works of military themes are various depictions of battle scenes of Prussian army

Prussian Army

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 victories, especially those during the Franco-Prussian War

Franco-Prussian War

The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the 1870 War was a conflict between the Second French Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia. Prussia was aided by the North German Confederation, of which it was a member, and the South German states of Baden, Württemberg and...

.

Together with Georg Koch and Eugen Bracht a panorama of the Battle of Chattanooga

Battle of Chattanooga

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 is among his works. He also worked in partnership with Richard Knötel

Richard Knötel

Richard Knötel was a German artist and pioneer of the study of military uniform.- Life :Knötel was born in Glogau in 1857. His father, August Knötel, was an art teacher and gave him lessons in drawing and painting from an early age. In this time, Knötel developed an interest in military fashion...

 and Woldemar Friedrich

Woldemar Friedrich

Woldemar Friedrich was a German historical painter and illustrator.-Biography:He studied in Berlin under Carl Steffeck, and in Weimar under Arthur von Ramberg, Charles Verlat and Bernhard Plockhorst...

 in illustrating two popular children books (Der Alte Fritz in 50 Bildern für Jung und Alt in 1895 and Die Königin Luise in 50 Bildern für Jung und Alte in 1896).

External links

• Episode aus der Schlacht bei Gravelotte (Tod des Majors von Hadeln am 18.8.1870) in the Deutsches Historisches Museum
  Deutsches Historisches Museum
  The German Historical Museum , DHM for short, is a museum in Berlin devoted to German history and defines itself as a place of enlightenment and understanding of the shared history of Germans and Europeans....
  
  , in German
• Carl Röchling in the Saarländischen Biografien, in German