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in Berlin, Oct. 9, 1841. Landscape painter, self-taught and an able master, although better known as an architect. Works: Ideal Landscapes (1815, 1820), Rocky Gate, Italian Landscape (1817), six decorative Landscapes, Mountain Lake (1823), Castle by a Lake (1823), Ideal Landscapes (3), Gothic Cathedral, Harvest Festival (1826), National Gallery, Berlin; others, and Collection of Drawings and Sketches, Schinkel Museum, ib.—Botticher, Fr. Schinkel und seine Werke; Grimm, Rede auf Schinkel (Berlin, 1867); Jordan (1885), ii. 198; Kugler, K. Fr. Schinkel (Berlin, 1842); Quast, do. (Neu-Ruppin, 1866); Rosenberg, Berl. Malersch., 99; Springer, Gesch., 37; Wolzogen, Aus Schinkel's Nachlass; do., Schinkel als Architect, etc. (Berlin, 1864); Zeitschr. f. b. K., iii. 89.

SCHINNAGL, MAX JOSEF, born at Burghausen, Bavaria, in 1694, died in Vienna, March 22, 1762. Landscape painter, pupil of his step-father, Joseph Kammerlohr. Travelled, and settled in Vienna. His figures were painted by Janneck and K. Aigen. Works: Six Landscapes, Vienna Museum; St. Anna, Frauenkirche, Alten-Oetting; Hunting Party riding to Falcon Chase, Huntsmen by Dead Game, Aschaffenburg Gallery; Landscapes with Figures (2), Schleissheim Gallery.—Wurzbach, xxx. 30; Nagler, xv. 261.

SCHIÖTT, HEINRICH, born at Elsinore, Dec. 17, 1823. Portrait and genre painter, pupil of Copenhagen Academy, where he won two medals in 1846; visited Paris, London, and Italy in 1850, and after his return painted several members of the royal family; afterwards visited Norway and Iceland, and in 1872-73 Egypt, Palestine, Greece, and Italy. Member of Copenhagen Academy in 1854; professor in 1866. Works: Portrait of Lund (1854); Genre Scenes from Norse Country Life; Landscapes and Architectural Views in Egypt and Syria.—Weilbach, 613.

SCHIRMER, (AUGUST) WILHELM (FERDINAND), born in Berlin, May 6, 1802, died at Nyon, on Lake Geneva, June 8, 1866. Landscape painter, pupil of Berlin Academy, and greatly influenced by Schinkel; studied in Italy in 1827-30, allied with Koch, Reinhardt, and Turner; in 1831 opened a studio in Berlin, which attracted many pupils; in 1835 became member, in 1839 professor, and in 1852 senator of the Academy; visited Italy again in 1845 and 1865, when he fell seriously ill at Rome and died on his way home. Works: Tasso's House in Sorrento (1837), Park Landscape (1856), Coast near Naples (1864), National Gallery, Berlin. In fresco: Pyramids of Memphis, Corridor in Pyramid of Cheops, View of Ægina with Temple, View of Phigalia with Temple (1850), New Museum, ib.—Dioskuren, 1866; Jordan (1885), ii. 200; Kunst-Chronik, i. 101; Rosenberg, Berl. Malersch., 326.

SCHIRMER, JOHANN WILHELM, born at Jülich, Rhenish Prussia, Sept. 5, 1807, died in Carlsruhe, Sept. 11, 1863. Landscape painter, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy under Schadow, when he studied history painting, until Lessing's landscapes induced him to take up that branch of art, in which he became famous as a representative of historical landscape in the style of Poussin; visited Belgium (1830), the Black Forest and Switzerland (1835), Holland (1837), Normandy (1838), Italy (1839); became in 1830 assistant professor, in 1839 professor at Düsseldorf Academy, and in 1853 director of the Carlsruhe Art School, which he reorganized. Member of Berlin and Dresden Academies. Works: