Wilhelm Schneider-Didam
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| Born | 14 May, 1869 |
| Died | 5 April, 1923 |
Wilhelm Schneider-Didam (14 May 1869 – 5 April 1923) was a German portrait painter of the Düsseldorf school of painting.
Life[]
Born in Altenhundem, Province of Westphalia, Schneider-Didam first attended the painting and drawing school of the Kölnisches Stadtmuseum. in 1886/1887. From 1887 to 1893, he then studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.[1] There, , Johann Peter Theodor Janssen and especially the portrait painter Julius Roeting were his teachers. In 1894, he made his debut in his first exhibition, which was held in the Galerie Eduard Schulte in Düsseldorf. Through portraits of fellow artists, Schneider-Didam soon gained a reputation as a painter of excellent portraits of gentlemen. Until his death he lived in Düsseldorf, where he was a member of the artists' association Laetitia and the Malkasten. Together with Eugen Kampf, he ran a private painting school for women, the Damenakademien München und Berlin und Malerinnenschule Karlsruhe, which was initially located at Jacobistraße 14a,[2] and later, in the early 20th century, in the so-called Hungerturm, also known as the Eiskellerberg, opposite the Academy of Arts. , Gertrud Friedersdorf (b. 1882), Alice Jacobs (b. 1879)[3] and , later wife of Paul Häberlin, were among his pupils.
Schneider-Didam died in Düsseldorf at the age of 53.
Work[]
- , portrait, 1897, Buscher-Museum, Gamburg
- Der Kunstkritiker, 1901[4]
- Fritz von Wille, Porträt, 1909, Fritz-von-Wille-Museum, Bitburg
References[]
- ^ Nrn. 12934–12943 im Findbuch 212.01.04 Schülerlisten der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf,
- ^ Malschulen: Eugen Kampf & Schneider-Didam. In Verkehrs-Verein Düsseldorf (ed.): Führer durch Düsseldorf am Rhein und seine Umgebung. 1898, p. X (uni-duesseldorf.de).
- ^ Bettina Baumgärtel, Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Verzeichnis der ausländischen Künstler und Künstlerinnen. Nationality. Residence and studies in Düsseldorf. In Bettina Baumgärtel (ed.): Die Düsseldorfer Malerschule und ihre internationale Ausstrahlung 1819-1918. Vol. 1, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9, pp. 430–433.
- ^ Der Kunstkritiker, website in portal duesseldorfer-auktionshaus.de, retrieved 14 September 2021.
Further reading[]
- Schneider-Didam, Wilhelm. In Hans Vollmer (ed.): Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Created by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. vol. 30: Scheffel–Siemerding. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 198.
- Hans Paffrath (ed.): Lexikon der Düsseldorfer Malerschule 1819–1918. Vol. 3: Nabert–Zwecker. Herausgegeben vom Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf im Ehrenhof und von der Galerie Paffrath. Bruckmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7654-3011-0, p. 228.
- Friedrich Schaarschmidt: Zur Geschichte der Düsseldorfer Kunst, insbesondere im XIX. Jahrhundert. Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf 1902, p. 367.
External links[]
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- Wilhelm Schneider-Didam, Biography in Portal deutschefotothek.de (Deutsche Fotothek)
- Wilhelm Schneider-Didam, Datenblatt in Portal rkd.nl (Netherlands Institute for Art History)
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- 1869 births
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- Artists from North Rhine-Westphalia