Wilhelm von Lindenschmit the Younger
Wilhelm (Ritter von) Lindenschmit the Younger (born June 20, 1829 in Munich , † June 8, 1895 ibid) was a German painter . Lindenschmit was raised to the Bavarian nobility with the title of knight in 1894 .
life and work
Lindenschmit was the son of Wilhelm Lindenschmit the Elder , received his first art lessons from his uncle Ludwig Lindenschmit in Mainz , joined the Munich Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 1844 and practiced xylography and lithography on the side .
After his father's death, he first studied at the Städelsches Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt , then at the Academy in Antwerp , but soon turned to Paris , where he created the following paintings, among other things:
- The Countess of Rudolstadt and Alba , as well
- Harvest (both in the Hamburger Kunsthalle ).
Returned to Germany in 1853, he lived for a few years in Frankfurt, where his cardboard box in the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg:
- Franz I captured in the battle of Pavia ,
- An episode from the history of the Lützow Freikorps (1861),
- The death of Franz von Sickingen (1861) and the
- Assembly of reformers in Marburg (1862).
1863 Lindenschmit moved to Munich and was responsible for the Bruckmann-Verlag, the German Hall of Fame ; then emerged:
- The fisherman and the mermaid
(in the Schackschen Gallery in Munich) as well as the seasonal friezes in the Cramer-Klettschen House in Nuremberg and
- Currend student Martin Luther singing at the door of Mrs. Ursula Cotta around Brod , popular as a woodcut by Schultheiss and first published in the magazine Daheim , 1873, No. 10.
The paintings followed:
- Foundation of the Jesuit Order (1868),
- The young Luther by Andreas Proles (1869),
- The joys of the monastery (1869) and
- Ulrich von Hutten in battle with French nobles (1869) (Museum zu Leipzig). He also painted the
- The death of Wilhelm of Orange (for the Society for Historical Art),
- Falstaff and
- The Merry Wives of Windsor ,
- Knox and the Scottish iconoclast ,
- Anna Boleyn ,
- Venus on the corpse of 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 wall paintings using Keim mineral paints, and in 1886 he completed a large, figure-rich historical picture, Alarich's entry into Rome .
Meyer's Konversationslexikon from 1888 judges his style:
- As a colorist, Lindenschmit is particularly characterized by a happy treatment of the semi-darkness. But the overall impression of his pictures suffers from an excessive emphasis on brownish tones. In his last paintings he achieved a rich display of colors.
Josef Altheimer (1860–1913) was one of his students.
literature
- Hyacinth Holland : Lindenschmit, Wilhelm Ritter von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 51, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, pp. 728-735.
- The artist families Lindenschmit. Paintings, graphics, documents . Middle Rhine State Museum, Mainz 1983
- Norbert Suhr: Lindenschmit, Wilhelm Ritter von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 600 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Lindenschmit, Wilhelm Ludwig Ritter von. Hessian biography. (As of December 19, 2019). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- Lindenschmit, Wilhelm (von) in the Frankfurt personal dictionary
Individual evidence
- ↑ Norbert Suhr: Lindenschmit, Wilhelm Ritter von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 600 ( digitized version ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lindenschmit, Wilhelm von, the younger |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 20, 1829 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 8, 1895 |
| Place of death | Munich |