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Claus Bergen (April 18, 1885 – October 4, 1964) German illustrator, marine and landscape painter.[1][2]

He was appointed Marine Painter to Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1914 and painted many naval subjects, as well as fishing scenes and coastal views, including some, painted in 1907 of the Cornish village of Polperro. He continued painting until his death. During the 1930s some of his scenes of the 1916 Battle of Jutland were included in the German Naval Memorial at Kiel. Many of the ship commanders from that battle asked him to do paintings of their ships. To accomplish this Admiral Scheer, the High Seas Fleet commander, took the fleet into the Baltic with Bergen aboard his flagship and went through a replay of the battle complete with blank firing of the guns. Many of these paintings can be seen in the Tamm Museum in Hamburg, Germany. When Life Magazine did a series on the First World War in 1964, Bergen's paintings lavishly illustrated the naval section bringing his name before the American public. The year before he had donated his Atlantic painting to President Kennedy.

References

^ Biography and illustration of pictures by Bergen held at NMM, Greenwich.
^ German wikipedia article on Claus Bergen.

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