Wilhelm Langschmidt
Illustration — Langschmidt self-portrait • Illustration — Langschmidt's portrait of his wife Dorothea Ahrens Wilhelm Heinrich Franz Ludwig Langschmidt (10 January 1805 5 October 1866) was a German-born painter and drawing master who spent most of his life in the Cape Colony, living at 59 Long Street, Cape Town. He was the seventh child in a family of 4 sons and 3 daughters raised by August Wilhelm Langschmidt (*8 June 1754), a wealthy merchant of Grabow, and his wife Dorothea Elisabeth Höpcker (*6 September 1774). Wilhelm was expected to take up the profession of merchant, but showed little interest in such a career, and instead had a great passion for painting.
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Wilhelm Langschmidt
Wilhelm Langschmidt · "Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa" · Public domain
- Born
- 1805 · Grabow.
- Died
- 1866 · Caledon.
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- painter
- Languages
- German
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Illustration — Langschmidt self-portrait • Illustration — Langschmidt's portrait of his wife Dorothea Ahrens Wilhelm Heinrich Franz Ludwig Langschmidt (10 January 1805 5 October 1866) was a German-born painter and drawing master who spent most of his life in the Cape Colony, living at 59 Long Street, Cape Town. He was the seventh child in a family of 4 sons and 3 daughters raised by August Wilhelm Langschmidt (*8 June 1754), a wealthy merchant of Grabow, and his wife Dorothea Elisabeth Höpcker (*6 September 1774). Wilhelm was expected to take up the profession of merchant, but showed little interest in such a career, and instead had a great passion for painting.
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Born at Grabow in 1805, died in Caledon in 1866.
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