Wilhelm Camphausen

Training under Alfred Rethel is recorded. Oskar Leonard Anderson is recorded as having studied under Wilhelm Camphausen. The recorded working language is German. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Employment is recorded with Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Work by Wilhelm Camphausen is recorded in the collections of Führermuseum, Alte Nationalgalerie, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Print Collection and Bismarck-Museum Friedrichsruh.

He studied under Alfred Rethel and Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow. As an historical and battle painter he rapidly became popular, and in 1859 was made professor of painting at the Düsseldorf Academy, together with other later distinctions. His Flight of Tilly (1841), Prince Eugene of Savoy at the Battle of Belgrade (1843; in the Cologne Museum), Flight of Charles II after the Battle of Worcester (Berlin National Gallery), Cromwell's Cavalry (Munich Pinakothek), are his principal earlier pictures; and his Frederick the Great at Potsdam, Frederick II and the Bayreuth Dragoons at Hohenfriedburg. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. In 1864, he accompanied the Prussian forces during the Schleswig-Holstein campaign and painted several scenes of the fighting as well as scenes of the War of 1866 (notably Lines of Dybbøl after the Battle, at the Berlin National Gallery), made him famous in Germany as a representative of patriotic historical art. He also painted many portraits of German princes and celebrated soldiers and statesmen. In the 1870 Franco-Prussian War Camphausen served in the German army as an official war artist.

• Camphausen, Wilhelm (1865). Ein Maler auf dem Kriegsfelde: illustrirtes Tagebuch. Bielefeld: Velhagen und Klasing. • Camphausen, Wilhelm (1880). Vaterländische Reiterbilder aus drei Jahrhunderten von W. Camphausen; text von Theodor Fontane; Illustrationen des Textes gezeichnet von L. Burger. Berlin: R. Schuster.

The authorities additionally record the headings Wilhelm Heinrich Camphausen, W. Camphausen, Camphausen, Wilh. His recorded language was German. He was the child of Elise von Ammon. 2 children are recorded: Felix Camphausen and Elise Anna Camphausen.

Wilhelm Camphausen is recorded with the occupation Düsseldorf school of painting. Recorded with the occupation university teacher. Classed in the genre portrait. Recorded as painter, university teacher, etcher, artist and illustrator.