Wilhelm Schirmer

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August Wilhelm Ferdinand Schirmer
Wilhelm Schirmer
The Memnon statues at Thebes, Egyptian court of the Neues Museum in Berlin, steel engraving by W. French after Wilhelm Schirmer
The temple at Gerf Hussein, Egyptian court of the Neues Museum in Berlin, steel engraving by J. Gray after Wilhelm Schirmer

August Wilhelm Ferdinand Schirmer (born May 6, 1802 in Berlin , † June 8, 1866 in Nyon ) was a German painter .

The similarity of names and the overlap in lifetime and subject lead to frequent confusion with Johann Wilhelm Schirmer (1807–1863).

Life

Wilhelm Schirmer began his career as a flower painter. Until 1823 he was employed by the Royal Porcelain Manufactory in Berlin . He then devoted himself to landscape painting and was involved in the redesign of the Glienicke park and palace , where he worked with Peter Joseph Lenné . He spent the years from 1827 to 1831 in Italy .

After his return he settled in Berlin and founded a studio here, which in a short time became the focus of a large group of students. During this time he worked with Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau for the illustrations in his hints about landscape gardening . In 1835 he was appointed a member of the Berlin Academy , where he taught landscape painting from 1839. In 1843, Carl Blechen names 1840, he became a professor and in 1852 a member of the Senate.

On returning home from a trip to Italy, Wilhelm Schirmer died in Nyon on Lake Geneva in June 1866 at the age of 64. He was buried in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Schöneberg near Berlin. The grave has not been preserved.

Works (selection)

  • Several drawings of Glienicke Palace and Park (created in collaboration with Prince Pückler).
    • View of Prince Carl's summer apartment in Glienicke , 1824, pen drawing, watercolors, on paper, image: 12.9 × 19.5; Paper 18.4 × 25.2
  • 1834 Addition of 44 plates as illustrations for Hermann von Pückler-Muskau's hints about landscape gardening
  • Torquato Tasso's house near Sorrento , 1837, oil on canvas, 42 × 87 cm, National Gallery Berlin
  • from 1847 stereochromic wall paintings in the Neues Museum in Berlin
  • Harbor view , 1853, painting in the malachite room, Orangery Palace Potsdam
  • Fischer near Sorrento , 1864, oil on canvas, 109 × 109 cm, National Gallery Berlin

literature

  • Franz Vallentin:  Schirmer, August Wilhelm Ferdinand . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 54, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1908, p. 28 f.
  • Eva Sprecher-Uebersax (Ed.): August Wilhelm Ferdinand Schirmer (1802–1866): A Berlin landscape painter from the circle of Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation, Potsdam, 1996, DNB 948018917 [exhibition catalog].

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerd-Helge Vogel : Carl Blechen (1798–1840): Experiences and transgressions. Steinbecker Verlag, Greifswald, 2000, ISBN 978-3-931483-24-1 , p. 115 para. 3.
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs. Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-7759-0476-6 , p. 308.
personal data
SURNAME Schirmer, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schirmer, August Wilhelm Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1866
Place of death Nyon