Discover painter, etcher, lithographer Johann Wilhelm Schirmer

Monogram: JSW

Qualifications: painter, etcher, lithographer, bookbinder, director of academy

Nationality/school: German

Born: Jülich 1807-09-05

Deceased: Karlsruhe 1863-09-11

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13 hits in RKDimages as artist
7 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

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Biographical information

Education: Akademie der Bildenden Künste (Düsseldorf)

Active in

Düsseldorf 1825
Krefeld 1828
Düsseldorf
Berlijn 1833
Düsseldorf
Nijmegen (stad) 1836
trip to Holland with Wilhelm von Schadow and Felix Mendelssohn
Rotterdam (stad) 1836
Den Haag (stad)
Scheveningen 1836
Rotterdam (stad)
Mendelssohn stayed in Rotterdam, travelled on with Schadow over sea to Dunkerque
Duinkerken
Amiens
Rouen
Le Havre
Montivilliers
Dieppe (Frankrijk)
Düsseldorf 1837
trip to Switzerland from August till October 1837
Frankfurt am Main 1837
Karlsruhe 1837
Basel (Zwitserland) 1837
Bern (stad) 1837
Thun (Zwitserland) 1837
Interlaken (Zwitserland) 1837
Meiringen (Zwitserland) 1837
Düsseldorf 1837 - 1839-07-23
started his trip to Italy on 23 July 1839
Koblenz 1839
by boat via Koblenz to Kehl
Kehl am Rhein
Offenburg
Schaffhausen (plaats)
Zürich (stad)
Chiavenna (Sondrio)
Milaan
Genua 1839-08-06
Rome
Civitella del Tronto 1839-08-23
Rome 1839-10 - 1840
Napels
Rome
Spoleto
Florence
Ferrara
Padua
Venetië
München
Düsseldorf 1840-10 - 1854
arrived in Düsseldorf at the end of October
Parijs 1850-09
Düsseldorf
Koblenz 1851
trip to Southern France from 7 August untill the end of October
Mannheim
Basel (Zwitserland)
Lausanne
Genève (stad)
Carpentras
Montpellier
Düsseldorf 1851 - 1854
Karlsruhe 1854 - 1863
became director of the art school

Teacher at academy/university: Akademie der Bildenden Künste (Düsseldorf) Badische Landeskunstschule (Karlsruhe)
from 1854 on

born in

active in

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Connections with other artists

Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Schadow, Wilhelm
Teacher of This field mentions the names of pupils. What is at issue are the pupils who were significantly influenced by a teacher as opposed to every student someone ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Abbema, Wilhelm von
Achenbach, Andreas
Adloff, Karl
Becker, August
Becker, Hugo
Bracht, Eugen Felix Prosper
Burnier, Richard
Conrad, Carl Emanuel
Dahl, Carl
Deiker, Carl Friedrich
Dielmann, Jacob Fürchtegott
Dittweiler, Ludwig
Eckersberg, Johan Fredrik
Esinger, Adele
Feuerbach, Anselm
Funk, Heinrich
Gude, Hans Fredrik
Hilgers, Carl (1818-1890)
Jungheim, Carl
Moest, Friedrich
Normann, Rudolf von
Reck, Hermine von
Rodde, Carl Gustav
Scheuren, Caspar Johann Nepomuk
Wille, August von
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Achenbach, Oswald
Funk, Heinrich

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: landscape (genre)

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 7 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 30 (1936), p. 88
Gerson 1942/1983 , p. 346
Bénézit 1976 , vol. 9, p. 379-380
Busse 1977 , p. 1116
Witt Checklist 1978 , p. 277
Sitt 1997-1998
Saur 1999-2000 , vol. 9, p. 3
Mai 2010 , passim

Die Deutschen Zeichnungen des 19. Jahrhunderts Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe 1966, cat.no. 3362, Skizzenbuch 1836, schetches from 1836 made during a stay in Normandy: on 836-08-01 Schirmer and Schadow and the composer Mendelsohn-Bartholdy travelled from Düsseldorf through Holland (a.o. Nijmegen, Rotterdam, The Hague, Scheveningen) to France (fol. 21 and 29 'Fischerboote am Strand in Scheveningen') (fol. 22 'Baumstudie in Den Haag')

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Project: Gerson Digital : Germany (Nachwirkung)
Marques de Collections (F. Lugt)

External links: Lugt (Marques de Collections) no. L.2265c

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Creation date: 1992-01-25; Last modified date: 2023-02-09

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