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Alexander Michelis (25 December 1823, in Münster – 23 January 1868, in Weimar) was a German landscape painter.
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*Exhibition catalog: ''Hinaus in die Natur!: Barbizon, die Weimarer Malerschule und der Aufbruch zum Impressionismus'', Gerda Wendermann (ed.) Verlag Kerber Art, 2010,
* Exhibition catalog: ''Die Weimarer Malerschule: Zum Gedächtnis der Gründung der Weimarer Kunstschule im Jahre 1860''. Weimarer Kunstsammlungen, 1960
1823 births
1868 deaths
19th-century German painters
19th-century German male artists
German landscape painters
People from Münster
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Alexander Michelis (25 December 1823, in Münster – 23 January 1868, in Weimar) was a German landscape painter.
Biography
His father, Franz Michelis (1762–1835), was a draftsman and engraver. From 1843 to 1851, he studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under the tutelage ofJohann 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 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 Grand-Ducal Saxon Art School, Weimar, where he took the position originally held by Arnold Böcklin
Arnold Böcklin (16 October 182716 January 1901) was a Swiss symbolist painter.
Biography
He was born in Basel. His father, Christian Frederick Böcklin (b. 1802), was descended from an old family of Schaffhausen, and engaged in the silk tra ...
. He remained there until his death.
His older brother, Friedrich Friedrich may refer to:
Names
* Friedrich (surname), people with the surname ''Friedrich''
* Friedrich (given name), people with the given name ''Friedrich''
Other
* Friedrich (board game), a board game about Frederick the Great and the Seven Year ...
, was a well-known philosopher and theologian.
References
Further reading
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*Exhibition catalog: ''Hinaus in die Natur!: Barbizon, die Weimarer Malerschule und der Aufbruch zum Impressionismus'', Gerda Wendermann (ed.) Verlag Kerber Art, 2010,
* Exhibition catalog: ''Die Weimarer Malerschule: Zum Gedächtnis der Gründung der Weimarer Kunstschule im Jahre 1860''. Weimarer Kunstsammlungen, 1960
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1823 births
1868 deaths
19th-century German painters
19th-century German male artists
German landscape painters
People from Münster
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