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Wilhelm Von Gloeden - Biography
Biography
Although von Gloeden claimed to be a minor German aristocrat from Mecklenburg, the von Gloeden family and its heirs have always insisted that no such person existed in their family records and his claim to The Barony von Gloeden was without warrant; the barony became extinct in 1885 with the death of Baron Falko von Gloeden.
Wilhelm von Gloeden was the son of head forester (forstmeister) Carl Hermann von Gloeden]] (1820–1862) and his wife Charlotte Maassen (1824–1901; from 1864 von Hammerstein).
After studying art history in Rostock (1876), he studied painting under Karl Gehrts at the Weimar Kunstakademie (1876–77) until he was forced by lung disease (apparently tuberculosis) to interrupt his schooling for a year, convalescing at a sanatorium in the Baltic Sea resort of Gröbersdorf.
In a search for health, he travelled to Italy (1877–78), first staying in Naples before moving on to Taormina in Sicily. He lodged at the Hotel Vittoria bef