Wilhelm Lindenschmit the Elder
Wilhelm Lindenschmit was a German history painter born in Mainz. He was an older brother to prehistorian Ludwig Lindenschmit, and father to history painter Wilhelm Lindenschmit the Younger.
Lindenschmidt studied art in the academies at Munich and Vienna, returning to Munich in 1826 as an assistant to Peter von Cornelius. Here, he painted Sieg Ludwigs des Reichen über Albrecht Achilles von Brandenburg bei Giengen an der Brenz in the arcades of the Hofgarten, as well as Leben des Leonardo da Vinci on the loggia at Alte Pinakothek. Afterwards, he performed a series of frescos at the Castle of Hohenschwangau.
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In 1830 he finished work on the fresco Die Bauernschlacht von Sendling 1705 on the outer wall of the old parish church of St. Margaret in Sendling. Later in his career, he painted a series of frescos at the ducal castle of Lantlsberg in regards to the history of the House of Wettin.
He also painted in oils, several of which are presently located at galleries in Karlsruhe, Munich, Mainz and Leipzig. These works include Schlacht des Arminius and Einzug Ottos des Großen in das befreite Augsburg am Abend nach dem Sieg auf dem Lechfeld. In 1848 he was commissioned as court painter at Meiningen, but died soon afterwards at the age of 42.
