Richard Zimmermann

August Richard Zimmermann ( born March 2, 1820 in Zittau, † February 4, 1875 in Munich) was a German landscape and nature painter. He was the youngest brother of the painter Albert, Max and Robert Zimmermann.

Richard received a first artistic training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden at Ludwig Richter and formed from the year 1838 in Munich at the Academy of Fine Arts in painting and drawing artistic, where he was taught by his oldest brother.

At first Richard was a history painter, but turned to the example of his brothers also to the Landschafterei. Stylistically, it is attributable to the late Biedermeier. The early forties, he spent the summer months mainly in Eberfing in Weilheim and am Ammersee. There are, among other subjects of the landscape around Rosenheim, Chiemgau, Munich.

Swell

  • Hyacinth Holland: Zimmermann, Richard. In: General German Biography (ADB ). Volume 45, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1900, pp. 293 f
  • Killy, Walther and Rudolf Vierhaus: German Biographical Encyclopedia, Volume 10, Verlag KG Saur, Munich, 1999, p 670
  • Landscape painter
  • German painter
  • Born in 1820
  • Died in 1875
  • Man
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