Düsseldorf school of painting

The art movement Düsseldorf school of painting was a group of artists who painted mostly landscapes, and who studied at, or were influenced by the Düsseldorf Academy. The academy's influence grew in the 1830s and 1840s, while the painter Wilhelm von Schadow was chief;Schadow and his students "bildeten den Krystallisationspunkt, um den sich in späteren Jahren die Düsseldorfer Schule anlegte". Wolfgang Müller von Königswinter: Düsseldorfer Künstler aus den letzten fünfundzwanzig Jahren. Leipzig, 1854, S. 1 It had many American students, several of whom got connected with the Hudson River School.John K. Howat: American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School, S. 311

Members
Famous members of the art movement (or "the Düsseldorf School") include Karl Friedrich Lessing, Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, Andreas Achenbach, Hans Fredrik Gude, Adolph Tidemand, Oswald Achenbach, Adolf Schrödter, and von Schadow.

 George Caleb Bingham (d. 1879)
 Amalia Lindegren (d. 1891)
 Wilhelm Busch (d. 1908)
 Fritz Reiss (d. 1915)
 Friedrich Stummel (d. 1919)
 Ludwig Zorn (d. 1921)
 Robert Weise (d. 1923)
 Emil Schwabe (d. 1924)
 Paul Raud (d. 1930)
 Ernst Friedrich Tode (d. 1932)
 Wilhelm Schreuer (d. 1933)
 Wilhelm Süs (d. 1933)
 Henriette Schmidt-Bonn (d. 1946)

Paintings

Related pages

German art
List of German painters

References

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