Wilhelm Schneider-Didam
Wilhelm Schneider-Didam (born May 14, 1869 in Altenhundem , Westphalia province , † April 5, 1923 in Düsseldorf ) was a German portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Schneider-Didam first attended the painting and drawing school of the Cologne City Museum in 1886/1887 . From 1887 to 1893 he then studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There were Hugo Crola , Peter Janssen the Elder and especially the portrait painter Julius Roeting his teachers. In 1894 he made his debut in his first exhibition, which took place in the Düsseldorf gallery Schulte . Through portraits of fellow artists, Schneider-Didam soon gained a reputation as a painter of excellent portraits of men. Until his death he lived in Düsseldorf, where he was a member of the artists 'association Laetitia and the artists' association Malkasten . Together with Eugen Kampf , he ran a private ladies' painting school , which was initially located at Jacobistraße 14a, at the beginning of the 20th century in the so-called Hunger Tower opposite the art academy. Sibylle Ascheberg von Bamberg , Gertrud Friedersdorf (* 1882), Alice Jacobs (* 1879) and Paula Baruch , later the wife of Paul Häberlin , were among his students.
Works (selection)
- Clemens Buscher , portrait, 1897, Buscher Museum, Gamburg
- The art critic , 1901
- Fritz von Wille , portrait, 1909, Fritz-von-Wille-Museum, Bitburg
literature
- Schneider-Didam, Wilhelm . 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. 198 .
- Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918. Volume 3: Nabert-Zwecker. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7654-3011-0 , p. 228.
- Friedrich Schaarschmidt : On the history of Düsseldorf art, especially in the XIX. Century. Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, Düsseldorf 1902, p. 367 f.
Web links
- Wilhelm Schneider-Didam , biography in the portal deutschefotothek.de ( Deutsche Fotothek )
- Wilhelm Schneider-Didam , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nos. 12934–12943 in the finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , North Rhine-Westphalia State Archives
- ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: inventory list ), website in the malkasten.org portal
- ^ Painting schools: Eugen Kampf & Schneider-Didam. In: Verkehrs-Verein Düsseldorf (Ed.): Guide through Düsseldorf on the Rhine and its surroundings. 1898, p. X ( uni-duesseldorf.de ).
- ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality. Stay and study in Düsseldorf. In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918. Volume 1, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , pp. 430, 433.
- ↑ Der Kunstkritiker , website in the portal duesseldorfer-auktionshaus.de , accessed on March 12, 2017.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Schneider-Didam, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German portrait painter of the Düsseldorf School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 14, 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Altenhundem , Westphalia Province |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 5, 1923 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |