Samuel Theodor Gericke

Samuel Theodor Gericke or Gerike was a German painter. Born in Spandau in 1665, he became at first a student of Rutger [van Langevelt], and later of Gedeon Romandon.
In 1694 he went to Rome to get prints, books, drawings and plaster casts for the Prussian [Academy of Arts] in Berlin, which would be established in 1696. In Rome, he was a student of Carlo Maratta. Gericke returned to Berlin in 1696 and was appointed court painter. In 1699 he became Professor of Perspective at the Academy, and one of its first 8 rectors. He served as the annual Director of the Academy a few times.
He translated De Arte Graphica, the famous 1668 poem by Charles [Alphonse du Fresnoy], into German in 1699. Other art theoretical works he translated include the Grondlegginge der teekenkonst by Gerard de Lairesse.