Adolf Schmidt (painter, 1804)

The Milkmaid , 1834

Hercules defeats the gold-crowned doe , mural in the north dome hall of the Neues Museum Berlin

Adolf Schmidt , also Adolph Schmidt (* 1804 in Berlin ; † after 1865), was a history , genre and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Schmidt entered the studio of the Berlin painter Karl Wilhelm Wach in 1823 . In 1829 he moved to the Düsseldorf Art Academy to be instructed in history painting. From 1831 he was a student in the master class of its director Wilhelm Schadow . His thesis there, The Milk Maiden , a portrait of a Düsseldorf bourgeois daughter , he exhibited at the art association for the Rhineland and Westphalia . The Westfälische Kunstverein later acquired it as the first contemporary painting in its collection.

Schmidt left Düsseldorf in 1835 and returned to Berlin, where he probably died after 1865. The Düsseldorf painter colleague Johann Wilhelm Schirmer characterized Schmidt in his memoirs with the words "a weak talent, but a beautiful bass voice". The painter Ernst Deger created a portrait of Schmidt in 1829.

Work (selection)

• Karl Ferdinand Sohn , portrait drawing in pencil, 1829, contribution to the portraits and self-portraits of the Schadow students as a Christmas present to the academy director Wilhelm Schadow, archive of the artists' association Malkasten
• The Lute Player , 1829
• David, holding the head of Goliath , 1829, acquired by Kunstverein for the Rhineland and Westphalia
• Angel's head , 1833
• The Milk Maiden (Niederrheinisches Landmaiden) , 1834, Westphalian State Museum, Münster
• Hercules defeats the gold-crowned doe of Keryneia , around 1850, north dome hall of the Neues Museum Berlin

literature

• Schmidt, Adolf . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 132 .
• Schmidt, Adolf, genre and portrait painters. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 2/2, sheets 33–67: Saal – Zwengauer. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1901, p. 590 ( archive.org ).
• Rudolf Wiegmann : The Royal Art Academy in Düsseldorf. Their history, furnishings and effectiveness and the Düsseldorf artists. Verlag der Buddeus'schen Buch- und Kunsthandlung (Ed. Schulte), Düsseldorf 1856, p. 232 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Atanazy Raczyński : History of Modern German Art. Volume 1: Düsseldorf and the Rhineland: with an appendix: a trip to Paris. Berlin 1836, p. 216 ( dfg-viewer.de ).

Web links

Commons : Adolf Schmidt  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Atanazy Raczyński : History of modern German art. Third volume, Berlin 1841, p. 87 ( books.google.de ).
2. ^ Atanazy Raczyński: History of modern German art . First volume, Berlin 1836, pp. 114, 216 ( books.google.de ).
3. ↑ Gerd Dethlefs: The work of art of the month: January 2010. LWL – Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Münster 2010, p. 2 ( PDF ( Memento from April 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive )).
4. ↑ Sabine Schroyen: Portraits and self-portraits of the Schadow students, 1829 . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , volume 2, p. 75 catalog no. 48-15.
5. ↑ Sabine Schroyen: Portraits and self-portraits of the Schadow students, 1829. In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Ed.), Volume 2, p. 75 Catalog No. 48-13.
6. ↑ The Milk Maiden , website in the portal lwl.org , accessed on September 8, 2018