Theodore Alexander Weber
1838–1907 · German marine painter
Theodor Alexander Weber (Leipzig, 1838 – Paris, 1907) was a German painter of seascapes and coastal scenes, active in the second half of the nineteenth century in France, Belgium and England. He began his training in 1853, at the age of fifteen, as a pupil of the landscape painter Wilhelm Krause, who specialised in marine subjects. He later continued his studies in Paris under Eugène Isabey.
Weber made his debut at the Paris Salon of 1861 with View of the Town and Shipwreck. When the Franco-Prussian War broke out in 1870, anticipating imprisonment as an undesirable German, he went into exile in London. From 1874 he lived and worked in Brussels and, in the summer of 1883, returned to Paris, where he settled as an independent artist.
His work focuses on the coasts of the English Channel, northern Belgium and Brittany, with scenes of harbours, fishing boats, shipwrecks and beaches, such as Low Tide at Ostend, The Coast at Blankenberghe or Shipwreck near Dieppe. Some of his paintings are held in museums, including the one in Avignon.