on Maneuvers In 1882, Stoltenberg became associated with the painters who gathered each summer in Egernsund on the north coast of
Flensburg Firth to paint and sketch in the open air. He was the only Egernsund artist to join the
Skagen Painters in the far north of
Jutland,
Denmark, arriving in
Skagen in 1884. There his painting benefitted from his associations with
P.S. Krøyer,
Michael Ancher and
Oscar Björck. After making a name for himself as a
plein air painter, in 1889 Stoltenberg married Anna Scharenberg from a well-to-do Hamburg family, settling in his home town of Kiel. There he painted scenes of the city and its harbor, publishing some 2,000 illustrations, mainly engravings, in the more popular weeklies of the day. Of particular note are his sketches of the old town and the fishing village of Alt Ellerbek, not to mention his illustrations of the latest developments in marine engineering. He also painted the German fleet and its crews sailing on the
Kiel Firth. In 1894, together with
Georg Burmester,
Hans Olde and
Julius Fürst, he founded the Schleswig-Holstein Cultural Association which he chaired until 1900. In 1914, he retired to
Schönberg where he died in 1921. ==References==