Hermann Friedrich Schrenck
German, 1847-1897
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Hermann Friedrich von Schrenck was a Baltic German landscape and marine painter and etcher.
Von Schrenck was the son of the naturalist Alexander von Schrenck and his wife Julie Helene Barbara, née von Sivers (1819-1869), nephew of the naturalist Leopold von Schrenck, and great-nephew of the portrait painter Peter Felix von Sivers.
After attending grammar school from 1857 to 1866, he initially studied chemistry and economics at the Imperial University of Dorpat until 1868. He later transferred to the Grand Ducal-Saxon Art School in Weimar to study painting, where he was a student of Stanislaus von Kalckreuth. Then he returned to Dorpat and worked as a drawing teacher at the Private Boys' Institute in Dorpat in 1876/1877. On October 23, 1876, he married Adele Henriette (1845-1927), the daughter of his principal Julius von Schröder (1803-1888). Once again, he left his hometown to live in Düsseldorf, Berlin and Bonn. In Düsseldorf, he was a member of the artists' association Malkasten in 1882/1883. Von Schrenk specialized in seascapes and beach scenes.