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Wilhelm von Schadow was a German painter associated with the Nazarenes and the Düsseldorf School. Born in Berlin, the son of sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow, he practised portraiture and religious painting. From 1826 to 1859 he directed the Düsseldorf Academy, whose teaching gained international influence. He upheld the central position of history painting while landscape and scenes of everyday life developed around him.
His Saint Barbara of 1844, held by the Clemens Sels Museum in Neuss, exemplifies the renewal of devotional imagery. The figure and her upward gaze recall Raphael’s Saint Catherine. This reference combines naturalistic observation with a Christian ideal. Works in the Städel, including The Repentance of Saint Peter, further document a practice centred on the human figure and sacred narrative.
This profile brings together identity references for Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
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Oil on canvas
Mutter mit Kind, 1823
huile sur toile
Catalogue period : 2017-06-21
Published result : 32832 CHF
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : CHF 4000–6000
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Oil on canvas
Die Parabeln vom verlorenen Schaf und verlorenen Sohn
Öl auf Leinwand
Auction date : 2017-05-20
Published result : 49600 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 45000
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Oil on canvas
Attribué à FRIEDRICH WILHELM VON SCHADOW — Kinderkopf.
Öl auf Lwd.
zugeschrieben
Date to be documented
Attributed
Published result : 450 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 500
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