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Edition of See also Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow on Wikipedia , and the disclaimer. Berlin, 6 Sept. He received his first lessons in drawing from his father, then turned to painting and became the pupil of Weitsch.

He was born in Berlin, the second son of the sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow, who gave him his first lessons in drawing.

He served in the war between and and three years later resumed his artistic studies in Rome, where Cornelius, Overbeck, Veit and others had founded the new school of the Nazarenes q. As in the case of Overbeck, his devotion to this latter field of human imagination led him to become a member of the Roman Catholic Church. In he was called to Berlin as professor of the Art Academy there.

One of his finest pictures is 'Freeborn Poetry,' a lovely winged maiden rising from earth to heaven. He retained this connection until , when age and failing sight led him to retire. He was perhaps more successful as a teacher and demonstrator than as a creative artist, but he had a very distinct, even though one-sided influence, upon the religious art of Germany.

He gave a new and vigorous impulse to the oil painting of his day without resorting to that pre-Raphaelite realism which sometimes lent to the canvases of Cornelius a certain crudeness bordering on the grotesque. Page Discussion. Read Edit View history.

Wilhelm von Schadow primary name: Schadow, Friedrich Wilhelm von Details individual; painter/draughtsman; German; Male.

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