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Schirmer, Johann Wilhelm
(b Jülich, 5 Sept 1807; d Karlsruhe, 11 Sept 1863). German painter and teacher. He completed an apprenticeship as a bookbinder but entered the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf in 1825, studying under Wilhelm Schadow. He was also in close contact with Karl Friedrich Lessing, who had already made a name for himself as a landscape painter. In 1827 Schirmer, Lessing and other interested friends from the Akademie formed a society for landscape painting. In 1829 Schadow put Schirmer in charge of a landscape class, and ten years later he became a professor at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf. Among his most important pupils were Andreas Achenbach (1815–1910), Oswald Achenbach, Arnold Böcklin, Anselm Feuerbach, Hans Fredrik Gude, Caspar Scheuren (1810–87), Valentin Ruths (1825–1905) and Georg Saal (1818–70). Schirmer travelled widely, visiting the Eifel mountains (1828–9), Belgium (1830), Switzerland (1835 and 1837) and Normandy (1836). He made the customary trip to Italy from 1839 to 1840 and later travelled to Paris (1850) and southern France (1851).
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- Schirmer, Johann Wilhelm
- Germany, §III, 4(v): Painting and graphic arts, c 1750–c 1900: Urban centres
- Karlsruhe, §2: Art life and organization
- Lessing: (1) Carl Friedrich Lessing
- groups and movements
- pupils
- Achenbach, Oswald
- Böcklin, Arnold
- Eckersberg, J(ohan) F(redrik)
- Fries, (Jacob Daniel Georg Gottlieb) Bernhard
- Gude, Hans Fredrik
- Hart, James McDougal
- Hilgers, Carl
- Thoma, Hans
- Werner, Anton (Alexander) von
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