Georg Hermann Gelbke

Germany
Germany
Games Participations2
First Olympic GamesAmsterdam 1928
Year of Birth1882

Biography

Georg Gelbke studied at the Art Academy in Dresden, but study tours brought him to several European countries. He mostly painted landscapes in Saxony and Prussia, especially winter images of the Curonian Spit. Much of Gelbke’s life's work was lost in a bombing raid on Dresden in 1945, when his studio was destroyed. A bone disease as a child caused a double curvature of his spine. He was the brother-in-law of his colleague Richard Birnstengel.

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