Ernst Toepfer
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Ernst Toepfer (June 4, 1877 - August 6, 1955) was a German painter.
Toepfer was born on June 4, 1877 in Wiesbaden; he attended the Zeichen-, Mal- und Kunstgewerbeschule, a private artist's school led by H. Bouffier from 1893 to 1895, where he was commended for his diligence ("recht gutes Auffassungsvermögen und recht gutes Können, gepaart mit großem Fleiße"), then studied at the Großherzogliche Akademie der bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe, led by Leopold Graf von Kalckreuth, until mid-1898. Starting in 1898, Toepfer then studied at the Königlich-Akademische Hochschule der bildenden Künste in Berlin-Charlottenburg for ten years, from which he graduated in late 1908 as a master student with his own studio.
Toepfer married Maria Theresia Klaus, who he had met during a stay in Brandenburg, in Berlin in 1909; the couple then moved to Idstein, in 1910 after finding a suitable house, the "Höerhof" (Obergasse 15), complete with antique furniture.
After serving as a soldier during World War I, Toepfer resumed painting in 1918, his realist impressionist pictures, influenced by the works of Lovis Corinth, Wilhelm Leibl, Carl Schuch and Karl Blechen, often depicting the region in which he grew up.
