Balduin Wolff
(Hermann) Balduin Wolff (15 July 1819 – 21 November 1907)[1] was a German painter of the Romantic period, and a chess player.
Born in Schmiedeberg im Riesengebirge (now Kowary), Silesia (then Prussia, now Poland), he graduated from a gymnasium of Hirschberg, and studied at Berlin University of the Arts (Universität der Künste Berlin) and Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf).
He drew a game with Louis Paulsen in a blindfold simultaneous display at Düsseldorf in 1862.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Chess Personalia: A Biobibliography - Jeremy Gaige (1987, McFarland), p. 468
- ^ "Louis Paulsen vs Balduin Wolff (1862)".
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