Friedrich Schaarschmidt (4 February 1863 – 12 June 1902) was a German

landscape painter Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction in painting of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, rivers, trees, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a cohe ...

and figure painter of the

Düsseldorf school of painting Düsseldorf is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in the state after Cologne and the List of cities in Germany with more than 100,000 inhabitants, seventh-largest city ...

, conservator and art writer.

Life

Born in

Bonn Bonn () is a federal city in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, located on the banks of the Rhine. With a population exceeding 300,000, it lies about south-southeast of Cologne, in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr region. This ...

, Schaarschmidt was born in Bonn as the son of Professor Carl Schaarschmidt (1822-1908), a philosophy historian and head of the Bonn University Library. From 1880 until 1889, he studied painting 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 ...

. There, Hugo Crola, Johann Peter Theodor Janssen and

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, temporarily also

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and Carl Ernst Forberg, were his teachers. As a practising artist, Schaarschmidt turned to

En plein air ''En plein air'' (; French language, French for 'outdoors'), or plein-air painting, is the act of painting outdoors. This method contrasts with studio painting or academic rules that might create a predetermined look. The theory of 'En plein ai ...

. He often decorated his landscape paintings with figures in antique robes. At the request of Peter Janssen, Schaarschmidt 1893

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: ''The Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819-1869''. Verlag E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1995, was appointed curator of the art collection of the Düsseldorf Academy as successor of Theodor Levin. As such, he also held a teaching position. He began to make a name for himself as an art writer and as an employee of the art magazine '. His most important writing is considered to be the work ''Zur Geschichte der Düsseldorfer Kunst'', which was published in 1902 by the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen. He was also a member of the Düsseldorfer

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''Rose und Akazie''. In 1901 a severe illness made him visit Böblingen near Stuttgart for convalescence. There he died at the age of 39 years. He was succeeded as curator of the art collections, librarian and secretary of the academy of arts by Hermann Board.

Work

* ''Reichskanzler Fürst Bismarck'', Bremer allgemeine Kunstausstellung 1890 * ''Faun und Nymphen'', Berliner internationale Kunstausstellung 1891 * ''Sommer'',

Große Berliner Kunstausstellung Große Berliner Kunstausstellung (Great Berlin Art Exhibition), abbreviated GroBeKa or GBK, was an annual art exhibition that existed from 1893 to 1969 with intermittent breaks. In 1917 and 1918, during World War I, it was not held in Berlin bu ...

1895 * ''Auf dem Posilipp'', Berliner internationale Kunstausstellung 1896 * ''Capri'', Große Berliner Kunstausstellung 1897 * ''Friedrich Schaarschmidt, Selbstbildnis im Gewand des 17. Jahrhunderts, ein Glas ausleerend'', Radierung, um 1900 * ''Vieni'', Figurenmalerei * ''Capri'', Landschaftsgemälde * ''Motiv einer Kapelle mit Fenstern'', Aquarell

Writings, magazine articles

* '' Gabriel Grupello und seine Broncestatuette des Kurfürsten Johann Wilhelm im Jägerhof zu Düsseldorf''. Düsseldorf 1896 * ''Fürstliche Bildnisse in der Gemäldesammlung der Kgl. Kunstakademie zu Düsseldorf''. In Beiträge zur Geschichte des Niederrheins. Jahrbuch des Düsseldorfer Geschichts-Vereins. Elfter Band, Düsseldorf 1897,
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* ''Zur Erinnerung an

Jakobea of Baden Princess Jakobea of Baden (16 January 1558 – 3 September 1597 in Düsseldorf, buried in the St. Lambert Church in Düsseldorf) was daughter of the Margrave Philibert of Baden-Baden and Mechthild of Bavaria. Life Jakobea of Baden-Baden b ...

, Herzogin von Jülich-Cleve-Berg, gest. am 3. Sept. 1597''. Düsseldorf 1897 * ''

(Zum sechzigsten Geburtstag des Künstlers, 13. Juni 1898)''. In Kunst für alle. Issue 17, 1 June 1898,
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* ''Die Düsseldorfer Künstler-Vereinigung 1899''. In ''Die Kunst für alle''. Issue 16, 15 May 1899, p. 246 f.
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* '' Fritz Roeber''. In Die Kunst für alle. Issue 9, 1 February 1901,
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* ''Verzeichnis der Gemälde der Kgl. Kunst-Akademie zu Düsseldorf''. Düsseldorf 1901 * ''Aus Kunst und Leben. Studien und Reisebilder''. Munich 1901
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* ''Zur Geschichte der Düsseldorfer Kunst, insbesondere im XIX. Jahrhundert''. Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf 1902
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Datenblatt im Portal ''rkd.nl'' (

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) {{DEFAULTSORT:Schaarschmidt, Friedrich 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German landscape painters Academic staff of Kunstakademie Düsseldorf German Freemasons 1863 births 1902 deaths Artists from Bonn Painters from North Rhine-Westphalia

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