Ludwig Lindenschmit the Elder
Deceased Person
1809 – 1893
Who was Ludwig Lindenschmit the Elder?
Ludwig Lindenschmit was a German history painter, prehistorian and art instructor who was a native of Mainz. He was a younger brother to history painter Wilhelm Lindenschmit, and father to prehistorian Ludwig Lindenschmit.
He studied art in Vienna and Munich, and beginning in 1831, was a high school art teacher in his hometown of Mainz. Here, he taught classes in art until the 1870s, and as his career progressed, his interest in prehistoric Germanic antiquities grew.
In 1848 he published Das Germanische Totenlager von Selzen, an important treatise on Germanic sepulchral mounds. In 1851, he became head of the Romano-Germanic Central Museum in Mainz. Lindenschmit was an outspoken critic of the "three-age system" developed by archaeologist Christian Jürgensen Thomsen.
With anatomist Alexander Ecker, he founded the Archiv für Anthropologie. As a painter, he assisted his brother, Wilhelm, with the historic frescoes at Hohenschwangau Castle in the Ostallgäu district .
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- Born
- Sep 4, 1809
Mainz - Nationality
- Germany
- Lived in
- Mainz
- Died
- Feb 14, 1893
Mainz
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on July 23, 2013
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