Alexander Michelis (25 December 1823, in

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– 23 January 1868, in

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) was a German landscape painter.

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His father, Franz Michelis (1762–1835), was a draftsman and engraver. From 1843 to 1851, he studied at the

Kunstakademie Düsseldorf The Kunstakademie Düsseldorf is the academy of fine arts of the state of North Rhine Westphalia at the city of Düsseldorf, Germany. Notable artists who studied or taught at the academy include Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Blinky Palermo, Ma ...

under the tutelage of

Johann Wilhelm Schirmer Johann Wilhelm Schirmer (5 September 1807 in Jülich – 11 September 1863 in Karlsruhe) was a German landscape artist born in Jülich, within the Kingdom of Prussia, Prussian Duchy of Jülich. Biography Schirmer was started as a student of ...

. While there, he became a member of the Malkasten painters' association and succeeded Hermann Heinrich Becker as its Secretary He spent ten years in Düsseldorf as a free-lance artist, but also gave private art lessons; notably to

Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen Princess Marie Luise Alexandra Karoline of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (17 November 1845 – 26 November 1912), later Countess of Flanders, was a princess of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, later simply of Hohenzollern. She married Prince Philippe, Count ...

and Infanta Antónia of Portugal."Antonia Maria Ferdinanda". In: Jochen Schmidt-Liebich: ''Lexikon der Künstlerinnen 1700–1900. Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz''. Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2005, In 1863, he was appointed a Professor at the

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, where he took the position originally held by

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. He remained there until his death. His older brother, Friedrich, was a well-known philosopher and

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1823 births 1868 deaths 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German landscape painters Artists from Münster Painters from North Rhine-Westphalia {{Germany-painter-stub

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