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SCHIRMER, FRIEDRICH WILHELM (1802—1866)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 327 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SCHIRMER, See also:FRIEDRICH WILHELM (1802—1866) , See also:German landscape artist, was See also:born in See also:Berlin. As a youth he painted See also:flowers in the royal See also:porcelain factory; afterwards he became a See also:pupil of F. W. See also:Schadow in the Berlin See also:Academy, but his See also:art owed most to See also:Italy. He went to Italy in 1827; his sojourn extended over three years; he became a See also:disciple of his See also:country-See also:man See also:Joseph See also:Koch, who built historic landscape on the Poussins, and is said to have caught See also:inspiration from See also:Turner. In 1831 Schirmer established himself in Berlin in a studio with scholars from 1839 to 1865 he was See also:professor of landscape in the academy. Schirmer's See also:place in the See also:history of art is distinctive: his sketches in Italy were more than transcripts of the spots; he studied nature with the purpose of composing historic and poetic landscapes. On the completion of the Berlin Museum of Antiquities came his opportunity: upon the walls he painted classic sites and temples, and elucidated the collections by the landscape scenery with which they were historically associated. His supreme aim was to make his art the poetic See also:interpretation of nature and he deemed techniquesecondary to conception. His pictures See also:appeal to the mind by the ideas they embody, by beauty of See also:form, See also:harmony of See also:line, significance of See also:light and See also:colour. In this constructional landscape German critics discover " See also:motive," " inner meaning," " the subjective," " the ideal." And Schirmer thus formed a school.

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