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Wilhelm Theodor Nocken (1830–1905), a German artist born and deceased in Düsseldorf, trained in the city before working there as a landscape painter.
While still an apprentice house painter, he attended Joseph Keller’s Sunday freehand drawing course in 1840, followed in 1843 by Rudolf Wiegmann’s construction course at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts. He attended the elementary class from 1844, then Johann Wilhelm Schirmer’s landscape class from 1847 to 1850. He completed his studies in the third quarter of the 1850 academic year to join the military. Nocken settled in Düsseldorf as a landscape painter. His preferred subjects were the alpine landscapes of Bavaria and Austria, rendered in a romanticising and idyllic style. More rarely, he painted motifs from the Rhineland and Westphalia.
This profile brings together identity references for Wilhelm Theodor Nocken and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
4 references are documented at Dobiaschofsky, Schuler. Each record links to its source; the amounts are not a general valuation of the artist’s work.
Oil on canvas
Blick auf den Eiger und den Mönch
Öl auf Leinwand
Catalogue period : 2026-06-29
Published result : 900 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 800–1200
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Sommerliche Voralpenlandschaft mit Bauernhaus.
Öl auf Lwd.
Date to be documented
Published result : 1200 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 2000
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Oil on canvas
Bergseelandschaft.
Öl auf Leinwand
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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Oil on canvas
Attribué à WILHELM THEODOR NOCKEN — Sommerliche Seeuferpartie.
Öl auf Lwd.
zugeschrieben
Date to be documented
Attributed
Published result : 850 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 1400
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Documentation updated : 2026-10-19
