Wilhelm Lindenschmit the Younger

Wilhelm Lindenschmit (the Younger) (June 20, 1829 – June 8, 1895) was a German history painter who was a native of Munich. He was the son of painter Wilhelm Lindenschmit the Elder (1806–1848).

Biography Lindenschmit studied art in Mainz with his uncle, Ludwig Lindenschmit (1809–1893), and afterwards studied at the Academy of Munich, at the Städel Institute in Frankfurt am Main, in Antwerp, and later in Paris, where he created and (Duke of Alba with the Countess of Rudolstadt). These two paintings are now housed at the Kunsthalle Hamburg.

From 1853 to 1863, Lindenschmit painted in Frankfurt, later relocating to Munich, where he eventually became a professor to the Academy (1875). During this period of time, he created paintings from the age of the Protestant Reformation as well as works on other subjects from roughly the same time frame.

(Institution of the Order of Jesuits), 1868. (Ulrich von Hütten fighting French nobles), 1869. (Martin Luther and Cardinal Cajetan in Augsburg). (The young Luther with Andreas Proles), 1869. (John Knox and the Scottish iconoclast). (The assassination of William of Orange), 1872. (Walter Raleigh in the Tower visited by relatives), 1873.

Beginning in the mid-1870s, Lindenschmit's works gradually became more luminous in color, being associated with the modern Munich school of painting. A few of these paintings include:

(Narcissus). (Entry of Alaric into Rome). (Venus by the body of Adonis); on display at the Neue Pinakothek in Munich.