Allers Marine Knorr - Public domain portrait drawing

Christian Wilhelm Allers (1857–1915) was a German painter and printmaker. Allers, the son of a merchant, was born in Hamburg. He first worked as a lithographer, and in 1877 he moved to Karlsruhe where he continued to work as a lithographer. In the Kunstakademie (state academy of fine arts) he was a scholar of Prof. Ferdinand Keller.