Wilhelm camphausen biography of michael
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Wilhelm Camphausen
Portrait of Frederick the Great
Tristan and Kadin Secretly Watch Isolde out Riding
Wilhelm Camphausen (8 February 1818, Düsseldorf – 16 June 1885, Düsseldorf), was a German painter who specialized in historical and battle scenes.
Biography
He studied under Alfred Rethel and Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow.
Wilhelm camphausen biography of michael
As an historical and battle painter he rapidly became popular, and in 1859 was made professor of painting at the Düsseldorf Academy, together with other later distinctions. His Flight of Tilly (1841), Prince Eugene of Savoy at the Battle of Belgrade (1843; in the Cologne Museum), Flight of Charles II after the Battle of Worcester (Berlin National Gallery), Cromwell's Cavalry (Munich Pinakothek), are his principal earlier pictures; and his Frederick the Great at Potsdam, Frederick II and the Bayreuth Dragoons at Hohenfriedburg.
He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.
In 1864, he accompanied the Prussian forces during the Schleswig-Holstein