Johann Wilhelm Schirmer
The Geroldsau valley near Baden-Baden
Breaking Waves with Distant Ships
Johann Wilhelm Schirmer (5 September 1807, in Jülich – 11 September 1863, in Karlsruhe) was a German landscape artist from Jülich, within the Prussian Duchy of Jülich.
Biography
The Wetterhorn
Johann Wilhelm Schirmer was started as a student of historical painting under Schadow at the academy of Düsseldorf. Later, he came under the influence of Carl Friedrich Lessing and landscape painting and began painting historical landscapes in the manner of Nicolas Poussin. He became known as one of the first of the Düsseldorf school of painting.
In 1830 he became an Assistant Professor, and later, in 1839, a Professor at the Düsseldorf Academy. In the meantime, he visited and painted in Belgium, the Black Forest, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Normandy and Italy. In 1854, he took up the role of a Director at the Art School at Karlsruhe, where he died.
This artist is sometimes confused with August Wilhelm Ferdinand Schirmer, who had similar interests, and belonged to the same era. In addition, both were known by the name Wilhelm Schirmer, and were students of Wilhelm von Schadow, although at different academic institutions.
Characteristic works
Wilhelm created romantic, classical and Biblical landscapes, such as:
The Grotto of Egeria (1842), in the Leipzig Museum
Garden courtyard in Glienicke, 1837
Twelve Scenes from the History of Abraham (1859–62), in the National Gallery at Berlin
An Italian Park at Berlin
Nether German landscape at Leipzig
A series of 26 Biblical landscapes at the Düsseldorf gallery
Good Samaritan (1857), four landscapes at Karlsruhe
Notes
References
Gilman, D. C.; Thurston, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Schirmer, Johann Wilhelm". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
Friedrich von Weech (1890), "Schirmer, Wilhelm", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) (in German), 31, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 312–315
Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Schirmer, Johann Wilhelm". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Schirmer, Johann Wilhelm". Encyclopedia Americana.
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