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   Stöwer
   Willy
   W. S. ; W. / Will Stover / Stower / Stover ;
   Henrietta Dettmann
   
   1864 in Wolgast
   1931
   Berlin-Tegel, Germany (Weimar Republic)
   sea captain
   
   apprenticeship as locksmith; technician in engineering offices of various German shipyards; as painter autodidact
   Germany
   Ludwig Stollwerck (since 1900: Stollwerck-Sammelbilder, e. g. series 132) ; from 1892 to 1929 c. 900 BW & 335 col. illustrations for altogether 57 books ;
   Kaiser Wilhelm II (whom he accompanied on various ship passages 1905-12) ; journal Gartenlaube
   
   technical, marine, ichthyological etching, watercolour, gouache, and oil painting
   http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Willy_Stöwer ; www.historischer-bilderdienst.de/marinebilder/willy-stoewer-marinemaler/index.php
   various links at http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_St%C3%B6wer
   Th-B 32: 98; Willy Stöwer: Zur See mit Pinsel & Palette (Braunschweig 1929) ; Jörg-Michael Hormann: W. S.- Marinemaler der Kaiserzeit. Leben und Werk (2001) ; Eva Mayring (ed.) Bilder der Technik, Industrie und Wissenschaft, Munich 2008: 159-161, 285f.
   mostly known as Kaiser Wilhelm II's most favorite marine painter
   785596
   
   







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