Julius Friedrich Antonio Schrader (16 June 1815 in Berlin – 16 February 1900 in
Groß-Lichterfelde
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) was a German painter, associated with the
Düsseldorf school of painting
The Düsseldorf school of painting is a term referring to a group of painters who taught or studied at the Düsseldorf Academy (now the Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf or Düsseldorf State Art Academy) during the 1830s and 1840s, when the A ...
.
Biography
He studied at the
Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin, then spent five years at the
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he became a student of
Schadow. He spent two more years in Düsseldorf, and later traveled in Italy (1845–47),
[Schout by Nacht - Schrader]
Meyers Konversationslexikon England, the
Netherlands and
Belgium and in the last country fell under the influence of the colorists
Louis Gallait and
Édouard De Bièfve. In 1851 he became a professor at the Berlin Academy.
Works
* ''Surrender of
Calais
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to
Edward III
Edward III (13 November 1312 – 21 June 1377), also known as Edward of Windsor before his accession, was King of England and Lord of Ireland from January 1327 until his death in 1377. He is noted for his military success and for restoring r ...
'' (1847)
* ''
Frederick the Great after the
Battle of Kolin'' (1849)
* ''Death of
Leonardo da Vinci'' (1851)
* ''
Milton
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Names
* Milton (surname), a surname (and list of people with that surname)
** John Milton (1608–1674), English poet
* Milton (given name)
** Milton Friedman (1912–2006), Nobel laureate in Economics, author of '' Free t ...
and His Daughters'' (1855)
* ''
Cromwell
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at the Death-Bed of His Daughter'' (1859)
In
fresco
Fresco (plural ''frescos'' or ''frescoes'') is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaste ...
he painted ''First Twelve Christian Monarchs'' in the Royal Chapel, and ''Consecration of the Church of Saint Sophia, Constantinople'' in the
New Museum, Berlin.
[ Among his portraits are those of Alexander von Humboldt and the historian Leopold von Ranke.][
]
References
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1815 births
1900 deaths
19th-century German painters
19th-century German male artists
German male painters
Düsseldorf school of painting