Paul Paeschke

Biographical information

RolesCompeted in Olympic Games
SexMale
Full namePaul•Paeschke
Used namePaul•Paeschke
Born27 February 1875 in Berlin, Berlin (GER)
Died10 June 1943 in Berlin, Berlin (GER)
NOC Germany

Biography

Paul Paeschke was a German Impressionist painter and printmaker of the late 19th and early 20th century who was involved in the development of classical modernism. He worked during a time when one art movement was replaced by another, and the different styles often worked in parallel, such as Impressionism and Symbolism, Fauvism, Expressionism, and Surrealism.

Paeschke studied from 1900-06 painting at the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin, where he was a master’s student of Professor Karl Köpping (1848-1914), well-known for his etchings and decorative glasses (Köpping glasses). He undertook numerous study trips and exhibited since 1905. From the outbreak of World War I, Paeschke participated as a volunteer until late 1918. During World War II, he worked as an art teacher in Brandenburg until he died in 1943. He was a close friend of well-known painter Lovis Corinth and his wife Charlotte Berend-Corinth.

Paeschke’s strength was his etchings, and his main motif was the life in the streets of Berlin and other cities. The submitted painting shows a scene of the International Long Distance Rowing Regatta Quer durch Berlin (Across Berlin).

Results

Games Discipline (Sport) / Event NOC / Team Pos Medal As
1928 Summer Olympics Art Competitions GER Paul Paeschke
Painting, Paintings, Open (Olympic) AC