Wilhelm Lindenschmit the Younger

William of Lindenschmit the Younger ( born June 20, 1829 in Munich, † June 8, 1895 ) was a German painter.

Life and work

Lindenschmit was the son of William Lindenschmit the Elder, received his first art lessons from his uncle Ludwig Lindenschmit in Mainz, came in 1844 to the Munich Academy of Fine Arts and practiced the way in woodcut and lithography.

After his father's death, he studied first at the Städel Institute in Frankfurt, then at the Academy in Antwerp, but soon turned to Paris where he created among other things, the paintings:

  • The Countess of Rudolstadt and Alba, and
  • Harvest (both in the Hamburger Kunsthalle ).

In 1853 returned to Germany, he lived for several years in Frankfurt, where his properties under the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg carton:

  • Capture of Francis I at the Battle of Pavia,
  • An episode from the history of Lützow Free Corps (1861 )
  • The death of Franz von Sickingen (1861 ) and the
  • Reformer meeting in Marburg (1862 ) emerged.

1863 moved Lindenschmit to Munich and was responsible for the Bruckmann -Verlag, the German Hall of Fame; then arose:

  • The Fisherman and the Mermaid

( in the Schack Gallery in Munich 's ) as well as the season friezes in the Cramer-Klett 's House at Nuremberg and

  • Currendschüler Martin Luther at the door of Mrs. Ursula Cotta to Brod singing, as a woodcut of popular mayor and first published in the magazine " Home", 1873, No. 10

This was followed by the paintings:

  • Foundation of the Jesuit Order (1868 )
  • The young Luther Andreas Proles (1869 ),
  • The monastery pleasures ( 1869) and
  • Ulrich von Hutten in battle with French nobleman (1869 ) ( Museum Leipzig ). He also painted the
  • The death of William of Orange (for the Society for Historical Art )
  • Falstaff and
  • The Merry Wives of Windsor,
  • Knox and the Scottish iconoclast,
  • Anne Boleyn,
  • Venus and the dead Adonis,
  • Narcissus,
  • Luther and Cardinal Cajetan in Augsburg and
  • Walter Raleigh in the Tower.

In 1875 he was appointed professor at the Munich Academy.

In 1883 and 1884 he decorated the hall of the town hall in Kaufbeuren with historical and allegorical murals using the germ 's mineral colors and finished in 1886 a large, figure- rich history painting, the collection of Alaric in Rome.

Meyers encyclopedia 1888 judgment on his style:

Josef Altheimer (1860-1913) was one of his students.

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