Ernst Anders

Ernst Anders (26 March 1845, Magdeburg – 1911, Mölln) was a German painter.

He began his artistic education as a private student of Andreas Müller then, in 1863, enrolled at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he studied with Rudolf Wiegmann, Heinrich Mücke, Karl Ferdinand Sohn and Julius Roeting. From 1868 to 1872, he was a private student of Wilhelm Sohn. Most of his paintings were genre scenes, but he made his living doing portraits, including many of his fellow artists.

References

Ernst Anders (Maler). In: Thieme-Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, Vol.1, Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1907, pg.300

1845 births

1911 deaths

19th-century German painters

19th-century German male artists

German male painters

20th-century German painters

20th-century German male artists

German portrait painters