List of Artists → Eugen Dücker
German landscape painter of Estonian origin. D. studied at the St. Petersburg academy 1868-63, a scholarship allowed him to travel Western Europe. Thereafter he settled in Düsseldorf where he became professor in 1872 as successor of O. Achenbach. His style reduced to a minimum helped to renew the Düsseldorf school of landscape painting. He took part in the most important exhibitions. Mus.: Moscow (Tretyakov Gall. a. others), St. Petersburg, Berlin (Nat. Gall.), Düsseldorf, Dresden a. others. Lit.: AKL, Boetticher, Thieme-Becker, Bénézit.
