Background
Bode was the eldest son of the landscape painter Georg Wilhelm Bode (1801–1881) and his wife Anna Maria.
Bode was the eldest son of the landscape painter Georg Wilhelm Bode (1801–1881) and his wife Anna Maria.
From 1848 he studied at the Städel Art Institute in Frankfurt under Professors James Becker and Johann David Passavant. After the death of his first wife, he graduated in 1859 and married her sister Mary Margaret, with whom he had three children.
He was the eldest of three sons. In 1851 he followed Edward von Steinle. Foreign many years he occupied at the Stadel Art Institute a studio, but he also had a studio in the Isenburg Castle in Offenbach.
From the castle, he made numerous exterior and interior views.
On his 70th birthday in 1901 Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse gave him the title of Professor. Bode was buried in the Old Cemetery in Offenbach.
In 2011 the lost diary of Bode was found and donated to the Offenbach city archive. This institution also acquired a bundle with 45 graphical representations of landscape, and history of the artist"s motives.