Wilhelm Balmer
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Paul Friedrich Wilhelm Balmer (1865–1922) was a painter from
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. He was born in Basel as the son of mathematician
Johann Jakob Balmer Johann Jakob Balmer (1 May 1825 – 12 March 1898) was a Swiss mathematician best known for his work in physics, the Balmer series of hydrogen atom. Biography Balmer was born in Lausen, Switzerland, the son of a chief justice also named Johann ...
. He was educated in draughtsmanship under Fritz Schnider and later at the
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in
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Ludwig von Löfftz Ludwig von Löfftz (21 June 1845 – 3 December 1910) was a German genre and landscape painter. Biography He was born at Darmstadt. He was a pupil of August von Kreling and Karl Raupp at Nuremberg, then of Wilhelm von Diez at the Academy ...
. During 1887–1892, he spent time abroad in Paris, London, Rome and in the Netherlands. During 1897–1902 he lived in Munich, and during 1902–1908 in
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and after 1908 in
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where he collaborated with his friend
Albert Welti Albert Welti (18 February 1862 – 7 June 1912) was a Swiss painter and etcher. Many of his works depicted dreams or nightmares. Biography Welti was born in Zurich as the oldest of seven children of Jakob Albert Welti-Furrer (1833-1906), a ha ...
, completing Welti's monumental ''
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'' fresco for the
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after Welti's death in 1912.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Balmer, Wilhelm 1865 births 1922 deaths 19th-century Swiss painters Artists from Basel-Stadt