Wilhelm Schneider-Didam (14 May 1869 – 5 April 1923) was a German portrait painter of the Düsseldorf school of painting.
Life Born in Altenhundem, Province of Westphalia, Schneider-Didam first attended the painting and drawing school of the Kölnisches Stadtmuseum in 1886/1887. From 1887 to 1893, he then studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.Nrn. 12934–12943 im Findbuch 212.01.04 Schülerlisten der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf , Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen There, Hugo Crola, Johann Peter Theodor Janssen and especially the portrait painter Julius Roeting were his teachers.
In 1894, he made his debut in his first exhibition, which was held in the Galerie Eduard Schulte in Düsseldorf. Through portraits of fellow artists, Schneider-Didam soon gained a reputation as a painter of excellent portraits of gentlemen. Until his death he lived in Düsseldorf, where he was a member of the artists' association Laetitia and the Malkasten.
Together with Eugen Kampf, he ran a private painting school for women, the Damenakademien München und Berlin und Malerinnenschule Karlsruhe, which was initially located at Jacobistraße 14a,Malschulen: Eugen Kampf & Schneider-Didam. In Verkehrs-Verein Düsseldorf (ed.): Führer durch Düsseldorf am Rhein und seine Umgebung. 1898, (uni-duesseldorf.de). and later, in the early 20th century, in the so-called Hungerturm, also known as the Eiskellerberg, opposite the Academy of Arts. , Gertrud Friedersdorf (b. 1882), Alice Jacobs (b. 1879)Bettina Baumgärtel, Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Verzeichnis der ausländischen Künstler und Künstlerinnen. Nationality. Residence and studies in Düsseldorf. In Bettina Baumgärtel (ed.): Die Düsseldorfer Malerschule und ihre internationale Ausstrahlung 1819-1918. Vol. 1, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, , . and , later wife of Paul Häberlin, were among his pupils.
Schneider-Didam died in Düsseldorf at the age of 53.
Work Clemens Buscher, portrait, 1897, Buscher-Museum, Gamburg Der Kunstkritiker, 1901 Fritz von Wille, Portrait, 1909, Fritz-von-Wille-Museum, Bitburg
Exhibitions (selection) “Mal doch!“ Andreas Dirks (1865–1922), Sylt Museum, Keitum / Sylt, Andreas Dirks with Eugen Dücker, Theodor von Hagen, Leopold Graf von Kalckreuth, Wilhelm Schneider-Didam, Alexander Essfeld and Ingo Kühl, 2022.
References
Further reading Schneider-Didam, Wilhelm. In Hans Vollmer (ed.): Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Created by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. vol. 30: Scheffel–Siemerding. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1936, . Hans Paffrath (ed.): Lexikon der Düsseldorfer Malerschule 1819–1918. Vol. 3: Nabert–Zwecker. Herausgegeben vom Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf im Ehrenhof und von der Galerie Paffrath. Bruckmann, Munich 1998, , . Friedrich Schaarschmidt: Zur Geschichte der Düsseldorfer Kunst, insbesondere im XIX. Jahrhundert. Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf 1902, .
External links
Wilhelm Schneider-Didam, Biography in Portal deutschefotothek.de (Deutsche Fotothek) Wilhelm Schneider-Didam, Datenblatt in Portal rkd.nl (Netherlands Institute for Art History)