Schmeller, Johann Joseph |
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BORN 12 Jul 1796, Grossobringen, Thüringen - DIED 1 Oct 1841, Weimar, Thüringen CAUSE OF DEATH hepatitis GRAVE LOCATION Weimar, Thüringen: Historischer Friedhof, Poseckscher Garten (Eastern wall) |
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Johann Joseph Schmeller was a pupil of Ferdinand Jagemann. He accompanied Jagemann during the mlitary campaigns of 1814 and 1815. After Jagemann's death the Grand Duke of Weimar enabled him to study in the Studio of Van Bree in Antwerp. After his return in 1824 he obtained a teaching position at the Drawing School in Weimar. For Goethe he created portraits of the many literary people that visited him. 150 of these portraits are still at the Goethe-Nationalmuseum. Schmeller often drew and painted Goethe himself. On 2 October 1827 he married Maria Christiane Henriette Wilhelmine Apell (b.1803). they lived in a house at the Unteren Graben in Aeimar and they had four children. He died in 1841 and from around 1860 Christiane lived in Gotha. After her own death in 1881 she was buried next to her husband in Weimar. Related persons • painted Boisserée, Sulpice • painted David, Jacques-Louis • painted Eckermann, Johann Peter • painted Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von • painted Grillparzer, Franz • painted Hummel, Johann Nepomuk • was pupil of Jagemann, Ferdinand Karl Christian • painted Rauch, Christian Daniel • painted Riemer, Friedrich Wilhelm |
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 The grave of Johann Joseph Schmeller at the Friedhof vor dem Frauentor, Weimar. Picture by Androom (01 Aug 2016) |
Sources • Johann Joseph Schmeller - Wikipedia (DE) • ADB:Schmeller - Wikisource • Deutsche Biographie - Schmeller, Johann Joseph |
