Wilhelm Schröter

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Wilhelm Schröter , called Winterschröter , also Wilhelm Schroeter (born February 24, 1849 in Dessau , † January 14, 1904 in Karlsruhe ), was a German landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Schröter received his first artistic training at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There he attended Oswald Achenbach's landscape class in 1867/1868 . Then he switched to the Grand Ducal Badische Kunstschule Karlsruhe until 1871 , where he studied with Carl Friedrich Lessing and Hans Fredrik Gude . In 1871 he returned to Düsseldorf, where he settled as a freelance painter and specialized in the representation of winter landscapes, which earned him the nickname Winterschröter . Schröter spent the years 1886 to 1888 in the United States , where he was involved in the manufacture of cycloramen on behalf of the American Panorama Company (later Lohr and Heine Panorama Company ) in Wisconsin . With twenty other painters, including Otto von Ernst , Friedrich Wilhelm Heine , August Löhr (1843–1919), Bernhard Schneider , Gustav Wendling and Paul Wilhelmi , he created the panoramas Storming of Missionary Ridge / Battle of Chattanooga , Battle of Atlanta and on large screens Jerusalem on the Day of the Crucifixion . He then returned to Germany to study painting in Karlsruhe in 1889/1890. Later he became a professor of painting at the Grand Ducal Baden Art School. Like his wife Elisabeth († 1947) and his sons Hans († 1962) and Erik Wilhelm († 1972, also a painter), he was buried in the main cemetery in Karlsruhe .

Works (selection)

Hunters in the Winter Forest , 1893
Horsemen under autumn trees at the edge of the forest , 1903
  • Hunters in the Winter Forest , 1879
  • Winter Landscape , 1882
  • Spring morning in the Black Forest , 1892
  • Baden landscape in the early morning mist , 1892
  • Hunters in the Winter Forest , 1893
  • Winter landscape , 1893
  • Baltic Sea in Winter , 1894
  • Stream in the winter forest , 1899
  • Horsemen under autumn trees at the edge of the forest , 1903

literature

  • Peter C. Merill: German-American painters in Wisconsin. German-American painter in Wisconsin . Verlag Hans-Dieter Heinz, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-8809-9638-5 , p. 14.

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Schröter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Theilmann : The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker . In: Wend von Kalnein (Ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 147.
personal data
SURNAME Schröter, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Winterschröter, Wilhelm; Schroeter, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1904
Place of death Karlsruhe