Heinrich Waldschmidt

Heinrich Waldschmidt (born April 19, 1843 in Berlin , † July 18, 1927 in Stuttgart ) was a German genre , portrait and history painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Waldschmidt embarked on a career as an officer in the 1st Westphalian Field Artillery Regiment No. 7 and studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There he was a student in Karl Müller's class of antiquities in 1871 . In 1872 he traveled to Pernambuco , Brazil, as a painter . He then worked in Weimar , where his son, the later painter and sculptor Arnold Waldschmidt , was born in 1873 , and later in Berlin. He emigrated with his family to Brazil and tried his hand at farming in Bahia , but returned to Germany. In 1894 he lived in Düsseldorf again .

literature

• Waldschmidt, Heinrich . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Dresden 1898, Volume 2, p. 970.
• Waldschmidt, Heinrich . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 35 : Libra-Wilhelmson . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1942.

Web links

• Heinrich Waldschmidt , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( RKD - Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis )
• Heinrich Waldschmidt , Auction Results on the Portal artnet .de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
2. ↑ Finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen )
3. ↑ From Pernambuco in Brazil . In: Illustrirte Zeitung , issue no.1649 of February 6, 1875, p. 103 ff. ( Digitized version )
4. ^ Address book of the city of Düsseldorf for the year 1894 . Part 2, p. 630 ( digitized version )