Johann Wilhelm Schirmer
(1807–1863) tysk landskapsmålare
Johann Wilhelm Schirmer (1807–1863) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a printmaker. By year of birth, Johann Wilhelm Schirmer belongs to the chapter ‘Romanticism’ in this site’s history of art.
Johann Wilhelm Schirmer was born in Jülich and died in Karlsruhe. Johann Wilhelm Schirmer trained at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. The teachers included Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow and Heinrich Christoph Kolbe. Johann Wilhelm Schirmer worked in Düsseldorf and Karlsruhe. The students included Peter Bücken, Ferdinand Keller, Andreas Achenbach, and Johann Wilhelm Lindlar.
The works belong mainly to the genre landscape painting. The catalogue has 21 works by Johann Wilhelm Schirmer with free images. The dated works span the years 1828–1860. Works by Johann Wilhelm Schirmer are held by several collections, among them Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Art collection of the Federal Republic of Germany, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, and Museum Kunstpalast.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Jean-Jacques Feuchère, Genaro Pérez Villaamil, Constant Dutilleux, William Sidney Mount, and Ivan M. Soshenko.