Christian Leopold Bode

Place: Offenbach Am Main

Born: 1831

Death: 1906

Biography:

Christian Leopold Bode (born March 11, 1831, in Offenbach am Main, died July 26, 1906, in Frankfurt am Main) was a German historical painter and graphic artist. He was the eldest of three sons of landscape painter Georg Wilhelm Bode and his wife Anna Maria. From 1848 he studied at the Städel in Frankfurt under Professors Jakob Becker and Johann David Passavant. In 1851 he placed himself under the tutelage of Eduard von Steinle and married Catharina Elisabeth Geiger (1826–1856). After graduating in 1859, he married Catharina's sister Mary Margaret, with whom he had three children. For many years he had a studio at the Städel and in Isenburg Castle in Offenbach, the latter of which inspired numerous exterior and interior views in his paintings. In 1901 on the day of Bode's seventieth birthday, Grand Duke Ernest Louis of Hesse bestowed upon him the title of Professor. Bode died July 26, 1906, and was buried in the Old Cemetery in Offenbach.