Johann Wilhelm Schütze (September 1807,

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– 24 July 1878,

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) was a German painter and art professor. His birth year is sometimes given as 1814, and the place as Berlin. He has often been confused with , a painter from Munich.

Life and work

His first art lessons were in Berlin, with . From 1847 to 1848, he worked with Carl Eggers, creating

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es designed by

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, in the hallway at the

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. Later, he was a professor at the Royal School of Art. He was especially successful as a painter of

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scenes, from the lives of the rural farmers; with a preference for naïve, youthful characters. Many of his works were made into

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s (and other prints) by himself and others, and issued in

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formats. These became widely popular. One of these prints, a

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by Richard Brend'amour (1831–1915), was published in the British newspaper ''

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'' in 1882. His works include a large

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at the (1869). Schützenstraße in Hamburg is named after him.

References

Sources

* Georg Kaspar Nagler: ''Neues allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon oder Nachrichten aus dem Leben und den Werken der Maler, Bildhauer, Baumeister, Kupferstecher, Formschneider, Lithographen, Zeichner, Medailleure, Elfenbeinarbeiter, etc.'', Vol.15. Fleischmann, Munich 1845, pg.50. * Friedrich von Boetticher: ''Malerwerke des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts: Beitrag zur Kunstgeschichte.'' Vol.2, Boetticher, Dresden 1898, pg.686. * "Schütze, Wilhelm (1814)". In: Hans Vollmer (Ed.): ''Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart'', Vol.30: Scheffel–Siemerding. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1936, pg.319

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19th-century births 1878 deaths Painters from the Kingdom of Prussia 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German genre painters Artists from Hamburg {{Germany-painter-stub