Philipp Wilhelm Oeding Explained

Philipp Wilhelm Oeding (born 15 January 1697 in Benzingerode and died in 1781 in Braunschweig) was a German painter who also painted miniatures.

Biography

Philipp Wilhelm Oeding became in 1721 a pupil of the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg. He studied there with Johann Daniel Preissler and acquired in 1725 Nuremberg citizenship. In 1729, he married the painter Barbara Helena Preisler, a daughter of his teacher.

In 1724 Oeding moved to Altona and became Danish Court painter.

In 1746, he finally became a professor in painting at the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig.

The present contribution is a translation of the German version of Wikipedia

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