Wilhelm Lindenschmit the Younger

Wilhelm Lindenschmit the Younger

Wilhelm Lindenschmit (the Younger) (June 20, 1829 – June 8, 1895) was a German history painter who was a native of Munich. He was the son of painter Wilhelm Lindenschmit the Elder (1806–1848).

W. v. Lindenschmit d. J.: Faustina-Tempel in Rom

Lindenschmit originally studied art in Mainz with his uncle Ludwig Lindenschmit (1809–1893), and afterwards studied at the Academy of Munich, at the Städel Institute in Frankfurt am Main, in Antwerp, and later in Paris, where he created Ernte (The Harvest) and Die Gräfin von Rudolstadt und Alba (Duke of Alba and the Countess of Rudolstadt). These two paintings are now housed at the Kunsthalle Hamburg.

From 1853 to 1863 he painted in Frankfurt, later relocating to Munich, where he eventually became a professor to the Academy (1875). From this time period, he produced paintings about the Protestant Reformation as well as works involving themes from British history. These works include:

Beginning in the mid-1870s, Lindenschmit's works gradually became more luminous in color, being associated with the modern Munich school of painting. A few of these paintings include:

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