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born 15 April 1832 in Wiedensahl died 9 January 1908 in Mechsthausen |
| 1841 | moves to his uncle, Pastor Georg Klein; receives private tuition |
| 1847 - 1854 | studies mechanical engineering in Hannover; changes career path and studies painting at the Düsseldorf Arts Academy, at Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp and the Munich Arts Academy |
| from 1859 | starts drawing caricatures and writes poems for the magazine "Fliegende Blätter" and the "Münchener Bilderbogen" |
| 1865 | publication of the pictorial story "Max and Moritz" |
| from 1878 | moves back to Wiedensahl and later to Mechtshausen; publishes, among others "Fipps der Affe", "Maler Klecksel" and a collection of poems "Zu guter Letzt" |
Last update June 2011
