In December 1863 Gude was offered and accepted a professorship at the Baden School of Art in Karlsruhe where he would once again succeed Schirmer, and so he left Wales.
U decembru 1863, Gude je dobio ponudu i prihvatio profesuru na Školi umetnosti u Baden u Karlsruhe, gde je opet nasledio svog profesora i napustio Vels.