Johann Wilhelm Schirmer

Johann Wilhelm Schirmer studied at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Training under Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow and Heinrich Christoph Kolbe is recorded. Peter Bücken, Ferdinand Keller and Andreas Achenbach are recorded as having studied under Johann Wilhelm Schirmer. The recorded working language is German. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are landscape. Places of work recorded in the authority are Düsseldorf and Karlsruhe. Employment is recorded with Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Work by Johann Wilhelm Schirmer is recorded in the collections of Städel Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Kunstpalast, Bavarian State Painting Collections and National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design.

• Illustration — Schirmer Südtiroler Home 1839-1840 • Illustration — Breaking Waves with Distant Ships • Illustration — Heranziehendes Gewitter Schirmer 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.

Schirmer created romantic, classical and Biblical landscapes, such as: • The Grotto of Egeria (1842), in the Leipzig Museum • 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