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Walter Koeniger

Walter Koeniger (1881 - 1943) was active/lived in New York / Germany.  Walter Koeniger is known for Snowscene painting.

WALTER KOENIGER

Known as "the Painter of Snow," Walter Koeniger was the son of an architect, born in Germany on May 6, 1881.  From architecture, Walter turned to painting, while still in Germany.  He studied under Eugene Gustav Dücker (1841-1916) and Eduard Karl Franz Gebhardt (1838-1925) at the Düsseldorf Academy.  Dücker studied at the Imperial Art Academy of St. Petersburg and was influenced by Russian realism.  Gebhardt, also a student in St. Petersburg, developed more into a genre and history painter.  Around 1912, Koeniger settled in Woodstock, New York, where he abandoned Dücker's crisp, photographic realism for a more painterly, expressive technique.  He concentrated on capturing the fleeting moods of nature during a period when the winter scene genre was rapidly rising in popularity.

Koeniger focused on views of the Catskill Mountains and wooded areas around Woodstock and Saugerties.  He painted in broad, large strokes, renderi   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7631 characters.]  Artist bio

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