Hermann Anschütz (12 October 1802 – 30 August 1880) was a German painter and professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He is 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 Ac ...

. Anschütz was born in

Koblenz Koblenz (; Moselle Franconian: ''Kowelenz''), spelled Coblenz before 1926, is a German city on the banks of the Rhine and the Moselle, a multi-nation tributary. Koblenz was established as a Roman military post by Drusus around 8 B.C. Its na ...

. His father

Joseph Andreas Anschütz Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the mo ...

was an eminent musician and was in charge of a school for vocal and instrumental instruction, and Hermann's younger brother

Karl Anschütz Karl Anschütz (1813/1815 Koblenz, Germany – 30 December 1870 New York City) was a German-born musical director and composer who founded the German Opera in New York City. He was the son of Josef Andreas Anschütz, the brother of Hermann A ...

ended up as an opera conductor in the United States. He lived at ''Promenade Straße 1'' in Munich around 1850.Paul Maucher
''Alphabetic register of house owners 1849-1851''
, p. 1. He died in Munich, where he was buried on the Old Southern Cemetery (

Alter Südfriedhof The Alter Südfriedhof (''Old South Cemetery'') also known as "Alter Südlicher Friedhof" is a cemetery in Munich, Germany. It was founded by Duke Albrecht V as a plague cemetery in 1563 about half a kilometer south of the Sendlinger Gate ...

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