ZIMMERMANN, Carl Friedrich - b. 1796 Berlin, d. 1820 Berlin - WGA

ZIMMERMANN, Carl Friedrich

(b. 1796 Berlin, d. 1820 Berlin)

German painter and draughtsman, a student of Wilhelm von Schadow. In 1814, he was in military service; he travelled Austria and Northern Italy. He was patronised by Count Radziwill and participated to the latter’s edition of illustrations to Goethe)’s Faust I.

He was drowned in the Loisach river near Wolfratshausen.

Armour Room in the Palace of Prince Frederick of Prussia
Armour Room in the Palace of Prince Frederick of Prussia by

Armour Room in the Palace of Prince Frederick of Prussia

Carl Friedrich Zimmermann was a pupil of Schinkel. The neo-Gothic style of Schinkel’s as an interior designer can be seen in this painting. Here the royal couple grapple with an intensely operatic life-style of interior design. Looming on the left wall is what must have been an actual sized copy of Stephan Lochner’s painting in the cathedral in Cologne.

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