Wilhelm Lindenschmit the Younger

Who was Wilhelm Lindenschmit the Younger?

Wilhelm Lindenschmit was a German history painter who was a native of Munich. He was the son of painter Wilhelm Lindenschmit the Elder.

Lindenschmit originally studied art in Mainz with his uncle Ludwig Lindenschmit, 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 Ernte and Die Gräfin von Rudolstadt und Alba. These two paintings are now housed at the Kunsthalle Hamburg.

From 1853 to 1863 he painted in Frankfurt, later relocating to Munich, where in 1875 he became a professor to the Academy. During this time period, he produced paintings about the Protestant Reformation as well as works involving themes from British history. These works include:

⁕Reformatorenversammlung in Marburg, 1862.

⁕Stiftung des Jesuitenordens, 1868.

⁕Ulrich von Hutten im Kampf mit französischen Adligen, 1869.

⁕Luther und Kardinal Cajetan in Augsburg.