JOHANN WILHELM  SCHIRMER
 
 

Johann Wilhelm Schirmer (1807-1863)
 Photograph 1855

            The famous painter Johann Wilhelm Schirmer belonged to the close circle of Norbert Burgmüller,
            who dedicated his fourth String Quartet op.14 to him. Schirmer played well the cello and was
            also a friend of Felix Mendelssohn. After being for several years the leader of the landscape
            section of the Düsseldorf School, he became toward the end of his life head of the Karlsruhe
            Academy of Arts.
            From the year of his death comes the following autograph acknowledgement for a sold painting,
            signed in agency for the gotten sick Schirmer by his friend and colleague Carl Friedrich Lessing,
            who in earlier Düsseldorf years also belonged to the friends of Norbert Burgmüller.