This is Theodor Rocholl

Theodor Rocholl (1854–1933), German military painter and accomplishment artist.

Rocholl was born in Sachsenberg (Waldeck) on 11 June 1854, the son of Rudolf Rocholl, the Lutheran theologian and philosopher. He was a student in Munich in 1877, then at the Dresden Academy. After a year, he moved to Munich where he studied historical painting below Karl von Piloty. He completed his art studies at the Düsseldorf Academy where he developed his interest in military art below the concern of Wilhelm Camphausen; his contemporaries in this pitch were Carl Röchling and Richard Knötel. He is united with the Düsseldorf instructor of painting. The artiste observed the Franco-Prussian War and the subsequent German army manoeuvres amongst 1883 and 1888; in 1890, he traveled to Russia to view the German Garde-Korps upon manoeuvre. Later in the decade, he was attached to the Turkish Army and covered the feat in Thessalia in 1897 along with the Turks and the Greeks; his sketches of the prosecution were published the later than year. He covered the Boxer Rebellion in 1900 as the qualified artist of the German expeditionary force. A decade later, he covered the case between Turkey and Albania.

Many of his paintings depict German military scenes, especially the battles of the Franco-Prussian War. One of his most well-known pictures depicted King William at the Battle of Sedan, meeting his triumphant soldiers after the victory. Rocholl after that painted a large mural for the Evangelischen Padagogiums in Bad Godesberg.

In his 60th year, he became a deed artist covering the campaign on the Western Front. His War Letters printed in 1916 in which he described the agitation and destruction. An autobiography of his sparkle as a painter appeared in 1921. He died in a streetcar accident in Düsseldorf on 14 September 1933, when he was 80.