Max Schmidt (23 August 1818 – 8 January 1901) was a German

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Biography

Schmidt was a native of Berlin, Province of Brandenburg. He studied in the Berlin Art Academy under

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and Wilhelm Schirmer. He was largely influenced in his choice of subjects and in his treatment by his familiarity with Egypt and Greece, and paid little heed to German scenes until 1854, but then treated them with rare poetic feeling. In 1868 he became instructor at the School of Arts in Weimar, and in 1872 went to the

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. His chief works are the Oriental frescoes in the Berlin Museum, “Wood and Mountain” (1868) and “A View on the Spree” (1877), both in the Berlin National Gallery. He wrote ''Die Aquarellmalerei'' (Watercolor painting, 7th ed. 1901). He died in Königsberg.

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1818 births 1901 deaths 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German male painters Artists from Berlin People from the Province of Brandenburg {{Germany-painter-stub