Friedrich Schaarschmidt
German painter (1863-1902)
Friedrich Schaarschmidt (4 February 1863 – 12 June 1902) was a German landscape painter and figure painter of the Düsseldorf school of painting, conservator and art writer.
Life
Born in Bonn, Schaarschmidt was born in Bonn as the son of Professor Carl Schaarschmidt (1822-1908), a philosophy historian and head of the Bonn University Library. From 1880 until 1889, he studied painting at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. There, Hugo Crola, Johann Peter Theodor Janssen and Wilhelm Sohn, temporarily also Eduard von Gebhardt and Carl Ernst Forberg, were his teachers. As a practising artist, Schaarschmidt turned to En plein air. He often decorated his landscape paintings with figures in antique robes.
At the request of Peter Janssen, Schaarschmidt 1893 was appointed curator of the art collection of the Düsseldorf Academy as successor of Theodor Levin. As such, he also held a teaching position. He began to make a name for himself as an art writer and as an employee of the art magazine Die Kunst und das schöne Heim. His most important writing is considered to be the work Zur Geschichte der Düsseldorfer Kunst, which was published in 1902 by the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen.
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