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Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow (1788 - 1862)
The young Wilhelm Schadow, a painter from Berlin, travelled with his older brother, the sculptor Rudolph Schadow, in 1811 to Rome - a trip financed through a stipend arranged by Alexander von Humboldt. There the brothers joined Overbeck's Brotherhood of St. Luke. Schadow identified so intensively with Nazarene ideals that he converted to Catholicism. This return to a dogmatic, all-encompassing interpretation of Christian belief was part of an overall turning to a medieval ideal, which united art, religion and nation.
In 1819 Schadow was named professor at the Academy in Berlin, and in 1826 took over Peter Cornelius' post as Director of the Academy in Dusseldorf. As one of the first Nazarenes to hold a prominent position Schadow played a major role in spreading their tenets among the following generation of artists. |
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