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Claus Bergen



The biography of the famous navy painter

18.04.1885

born at Stuttgart

1895

removal to Munich

since 1904

He attended Moritz Weinhold's painter school and the Royal Bavarian Academy of Plastic Arts

1907 - 1912

451 illustrations for 23 volumes of Karl May's 'Illustrated Stories of Travels'

1915 til 1918

Navy painter in Wilhelmshaven , in June / July 1917 he was embarked in S.M.S. U 53 (CO: Kapitänleutnant Hans Rose)

1926

Maritime illustrations for 'Deutsches Museum', a technical museum in Munich

1928

Honorary member of Submariners Association Munich

1926 - 1931

Voyages onboard of warships of the Imperial Navy and Kriegsmarine as onboard the submarines U 26, U 53, U 32 and U 43

1931

Coeditor of the book 'Wir leben noch! Deutsche Seehelden im U-Bootkampf' which was written by members of Submariners Association Munich; this book was also published in English 'U-boat Stories. Narratives of German U-boat Sailors', London 1931

since 1945

mostly historical maritime pictures

04.10.1964

Claus Bergen dies due to a colour contamination

Additional information concerning some of his pictures

The pictures of Claus Bergen we present at ourwebsite were published in the book 'Wir leben noch', id est 'U-boat Stories'. Later we received some good graphics by email. But we forgot to note the sender's name. So we may thank him here in this anonymus way.

Bergen's pictures of the battle of Jutland:  Admiral Hipper ordered the German fleet a second time 'top secret' to sea after the battle. The reason was to allow Bergen to paint his pictures about this battle!

1961 his picture 'U-Boot auf Feindfahrt' , id est 'Submarine at the front', was handed over to the Naval Academy 'Marineschule Mürwik' due to its 50th anniversary. It was a present, financed by donations of three generations of naval officers.

Also his work 'Schlachtschiff BISMARCK im Endkampf am 27. Mai 1941', id est 'The final fight of battleship BISMARCK' was handed over to the Naval Academy by Dr. Hermann Reusch.

In the year 1963 US president John F. Kennedy received the picture 'Atlantic' by Claus Bergen.

In the same year the artist handed over his picture 'Nelsons Flaggschiff VICTORY', id est 'The VICTORY - Nelson's flagship' to the British Admiralty. Admiral Jellicoe's widow attended the hand over.
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