Emil Gottlieb Schuback

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Emil Gottlieb Schuback (28 June 1820 – 14 March 1902) was a German genre painter and lithographer. He was born in Hamburg and died in Düsseldorf. He learned painting from Gerdt Hardorff at the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums in Hamburg and joined the Klub Hamburgischer junger Künstler. At sixteen he moved to Munich to study with Peter von Cornelius and Heinrich Maria von Hess at the Academy of Fine Arts. The influence of Cornelius drew him to the Nazarene movement, and in 1844 he went to Rome to join a group of German artists there, including Heinrich Dreber, Günther Gensler, and Heinrich Gerhardt. He returned to Hamburg in 1848 and worked on genre and history painting. In 1855 he moved to Düsseldorf to improve his skills, worked with Rudolf Jordan, and became part of the Düsseldorfer Malerschule. He then devoted himself mainly to genre works, many of them showing scenes from the lives of children, reflecting his wife Emma’s work as a teacher. Emma later started her own girls’ school, the Schuback’schen Schule, which operated until 1911. Schuback was a member of the artists’ association Malkasten and of Verein der Düsseldorfer Künstler. He made another long visit to Rome in 1885. A major retrospective was held at the Alte Kunsthalle shortly after his death.