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Wilhelm Petersen (1900 – 1987) was a German born in the Holstein region of northern Germany. He first started studying painting at the age of sixteen under Peter Gustav Doren at the School of Decorative Arts in Hamburg. At eighteen he volunteered to fight in WWI, but the war ended before he was sent to the front. He fought in the streets of Berlin in 1919 against the Spartakists and then the next year he began work for the Forestry Academy in Eberswalde. He worked on some private paintings and restored old and damaged works, and then published his first collection of paintings in 1924. In 1927 he moved to Berlin to work as an illustrator. Over the years, he would be inspired to paint a variety of figures: the people of Friesland, ancient Teutons, Vikings, nudes, portraits of families, children’s books, etc...
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