Louis Tannert

Louis Tannert (ca.1833–ca.1909), who has also been referred to as W. L. Tannert, was a painter from Germany who had a significant career as art educator and curator in South Australia.

He studied at the Academy of Düsseldorf and the Royal Academy of Dresden.

He arrived in Melbourne on board the Kent on 17 December 1876 and was soon showing his works in the city, mostly genre paintings in the style of the Düsseldorf school of painting.

On the recommendation of Eugene von Guerard he was offered the position of head master of the South Australian School of Design, which he took up in October 1881. He resigned in 1892 and returned to Germany.

He was curator of the Art Gallery of South Australia 1882–1889.

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