Johann Wilhelm Schirmer

Johann Wilhelm Schirmer ( born September 7, 1807 in Jülich, † September 11, 1863 in Karlsruhe ) was a German landscape painter and printmaker.

Life and artistic development

Between 1821 and 1824 Schirmer graduated from a bookbinder in his father's workshop. In addition, he began with autodidactic studies in painting and attended since 1826, the Dusseldorf Art Academy. There he became a student of Wilhelm von Schadow and Heinrich Kolbe. Under the influence of Carl Friedrich Lessing Schirmer trained as a landscape painter.

Since 1834 as an assistant teacher and in 1839 a professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, Schirmer was next to Lessing the principal founder of the Dusseldorf School of landscape painting. A trip to Normandy in 1838 prompted him to leave the course taken by him toward a more applied to the drawing weight representation and to increase the emphasis on color and sound effect. Expression of this style change were pictures like " Autumn Landscape ", " Wetterhorn " or " Jungfrau in Switzerland ". His trip to Italy in 1840 led him into the more stylized and idealized direction of landscape painting, often with biblical motifs. In 1841 he married Emilie Bard of life.

In 1854 he was appointed by the Prince Regent and later Grand Duke Friedrich I as the first director of the newly established School of Art in Karlsruhe. It was here Schirmer, among other things as a teacher of Hans Thoma, Rudolf Epp and Anton von Werner.

In his late work outweigh religious themes, while his last pictures belong to any particular direction more. You are the general term for moods or thoughts and show almost an impressionistic style.

Schirmer's oeuvre of prints, approximately 30 sheets, is little known and scientifically processed. In his youth until in the 1840s it was for the artist of great importance. He preferred the etching, but also dealt with the lithograph. 1829 originated in Dusseldorf his first etching the praying nun. In 1847 his folio work was published eight original etchings of landscapes, which consists of leaves of different ages.

Johann Wilhelm Schirmer is as important German landscape painter to rediscover again, which called for some exhibitions in the last few years with emphasis.

Major works

  • Forest Chapel (1829 ), Wallraf -Richartz Museum, Cologne
  • Grotto of Egeria (1829 ), Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig
  • Autumn landscape (1838 )
  • The Wetterhorn (1838 )
  • Italian landscape with pilgrims, Dusseldorf Art Academy
  • Biblical landscapes in 26 charcoal drawings ( 1855-56 )
  • Four pictures on the history of the Good Samaritan ( 1856-57 ) Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
  • Stormy Night ( 1860 ), Neue Pinakothek Munich
  • Ocean surf with distant ships (1836 ), Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
  • Pre- Pulling thunderstorms in the Roman Campagna (1858 ) Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
  • 12 oil paintings on the history of Abraham ( 1859-62 ), National Gallery Berlin

Illustrations (selection)

Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf:

  • In: German artist album in Originalradirungen. -. Buddeus, Dusseldorf 1841 Digitized edition
  • In: German seals with marginal drawings German artist. - Buddeus, ( Volumes 1-2 ) Dusseldorf 1843 Digitized edition.
  • In: Reinic, Robert. Songs of a painter with marginal drawings of his friends. - Took place between 1836 - 1852. Songs of a painter with marginal drawings of his friends. - Dusseldorf: Schulgen - Bettendorff, 1838, colored wallets output. digitized edition
  • Songs of a painter with marginal drawings of his friends. - Dusseldorf: Schulgen - Bettendorff, 1838 Digitized edition.
  • Songs of a painter with marginal drawings of his friends. - Buddeus, Dusseldorf betw 1839 and 1846 Digitized edition.
  • Songs of a painter with marginal drawings of his friends. -. Vogel, Leipzig 1852 Digitized edition

His pupils

Among his pupils there are some painters who ultimately achieved greater notoriety as their teacher:

Düsseldorf student:

Karlsruhe students:

  • Emil Lugo
  • Hans Thoma
  • Carl Friedrich Deiker
  • Franz Xaver von Riedmüller
  • Rudolf Epp
  • Anton von Werner

Memoirs

  • The memoirs of Johann Wilhelm Schirmer. Edited by Paul Kauhausen. Team Left Lower Rhine, Krefeld 1957

Special

  • 2010/2011 Städtische Galerie Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach: " The multiplied nature." Schirmer and printmaking (JWS 2010 Johann Wilhelm Schirmer. From Rhineland in the world)
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