DEPPE, Ludwig
(b. 0 ?, d. ~1830 Berlin)
German painter. He is known from only two signed paintings of 1820. No biographical data are available about him.
German painter. He is known from only two signed paintings of 1820. No biographical data are available about him.
Ludwig Deppe was a professional secretary who is known from only two signed paintings of 1820. A number of fine early-nineteenth-century views of Berlin were lost in World War II, but one of the best remaining is by Ludwig Deppe. His Houses at a Millrace, like so many eighteenth-century vedute, with its prismatic realism, suggests the use of a camera obscura.