Reinhard Sebastian Zimmermann Badischer Postillon

Reinhard Sebastian Zimmermann (1815 – 1893) was a German artist who studied at the

Munich Academy The Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (german: Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, also known as Munich Academy) is one of the oldest and most significant Art school, art academies in Germany. It is located in the Maxvorstadt district of Munich, ...

under Julius Schnorr,

Heinrich Maria von Hess Heinrich Maria von Hess (19 April 1798 in Düsseldorf - 29 Märch 1863 in Munich) was a German painter, a member of the Nazarene movement. Biography Hess was born at Düsseldorf and brought up to the profession of art by his father, the e ...

and Clemens von Zimmermann. At first active as portrait painter, he was appointed a royal painter of the

Grand Duke of Baden The Grand Duchy of Baden (german: Großherzogtum Baden) was a state in the southwest German Empire on the east bank of the Rhine. It existed between 1806 and 1918. It came into existence in the 12th century as the Margraviate of Baden and sub ...

and dedicated himself to depicting

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n and Swabian

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life. He repainted the same subject several times like the painting "Zahlungsschwierigkeiten" (Payment Difficulties) first version dates from 1852, the later once from 1855 a.s.o. His paintings are displayed at

Victoria and Albert Museum The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.27 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and ...

, London, at

Neue Pinakothek The Neue Pinakothek (, ''New Pinacotheca'') is an art museum in Munich, Germany. Its focus is European Art of the 18th and 19th centuries, and it is one of the most important museums of art of the nineteenth century in the world. Together with t ...

, Munich, and in many other museums.

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1815 births 1893 deaths 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German male painters Academy of Fine Arts, Munich alumni {{Germany-painter-stub