A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF
tion of Paul Delaroche. He published the following series of lithographs: 'The Moiitlia,' ' Flowers
and Fruit,' 'The Porcelain Designer.'
SCHIMON, FERniNAND, painter, born at Pesth in 1797, was first a singer and actor, and then, after studying art at Munich, came out as a portrait painter. He worked at the Loggie of the Old Pina- cotbek after Cornelius' designs. JNIost of liis works are in the Villa Rosenstein, near Stiittgart. He died at Munich in 1852.
SCHINDLER, Albert, bom at Engelsberg, in Silesia, August 19, 1805, studied under Fendi at the Vienna Academy, and became a genre painter of much merit. His ' Dying Pilgrim ' is in the possession of the Emperor of Austria. He died at Vienna in 1861.
SCHINULEK, Emil Jakob, German painter; bom at Vienna, April 27, 1842 ; studied at the Vienna Academy under Zimmermann, his fellow- pupils being Jettel, Ribarz, and Russ. His work showed the influence of Corot, Daubigny, Dupr6, and Rousseau in its close interpretations of nature, and his place as a landscape-painter ranks with the first Of his works we may mention : ' Abend im Prater,' ' Alpe in Steiermark,' ' Mondlandschaft,' ' Thai des Friedens,' and the numerous delightful illustrations to Zedlitz's ' Waldfrauleins Geburt.' He was a member of the Academies of Vienna and Munich, and the holder of several distinguished decorations. He died at Westernland-am-Sylt, August 9, 1892.
SCHINDLER, Johann Joseph, painter, bom at St. Polten in 1777, studied at the Academy at Vienna, and then became professor of drawing at the Normal School of St. Anna in that cit_v. He painted the altar-piece in St. Micliael's church at Vienna, and also engraved several plates. He died at Vienna in 1836.
SCHINDLER, Karl, painter, born in 1822, was a pupil of Fendi. He died at Laab, near Vienna, in 1842.
SCHINKEL, Karl Frikdrich, the famous Ger- man architect, born March 13, 1781, at Neuruppin, began his career in the early years of the 19th century, as a painter. He had been trained in the Academy of Architecture at Berlin, but time and circumstance seemed peculiarly unfavourable to the art in which he was afterwards to achieve distinction. In 1803 he travelled in Italy, painting landscapes, copying historical pictures, and making drawings of costumes, and devoting much time to the study of ancient monuments. On his return to Germany he produced a number of landscapes with buildings, and viarhines such as a 'Panorama of Palermo,' and the 'Seven Wonders of the World.' Later, when his fame as an architect was established, he furnislied designs for the paintings in the vestibule of the Berlin Museum, and continued from time to time to paint landscapes and historical pictures, and projects for theatrical scenery. He published a few lithographs and etchings, and numberless illustrations to books on architecture. He died at Berlin, October 9, 1841. In the National Gallery of Berlin there are seventeen of his pictures.
SCHINNAGL, Max Joseph, bom at Burghausen, in Bavaria, in 1694, was a pupil of his step-father, Joseph Kammerloher. He painted wild scenery, with figures by Janneck and Aigen. The galleries at Vienna and Augsburg possess pictures by him. ile died at V'ienna in 1761.
SCHINZ, JoHANN Georg, painter, bom at Zuricb in 1794, was a pupil of Gessner, and painted Swiss landscapes. He died in 1845.
SCHINZ, JoHANN Kaspar, born at Zurich in 1798, painted biblical pictures. He died in 1832.
SCHIOPPI. See Alabardi.
SCHIRMER, Friedrich Wilhelm, landscape painter, bom at Berlin in 1802, was apprenticed- at the age of fifteen to the Royal Porcelain Manu- factory, and worked at the same time in the Berlin Academy. From 1823 he devoted himself entirely to art, travelling in Germany and visiting Italy. In 1839 he was appointed teacher, and in 1840 professor, in the Berlin Academy. In 1845 lie revisited Italy, and in 1850 painted the walls of the Egyptian and Grecian divisions in the Berlin New Museum. In 1863 he again went to Italy, though he was suffering at the time from ill-health, and he died at Rome in 1865. Examples of his work are to be- seen in the National Gallery, Berlin.
SCHIRMER, G., a native of Berlin, bom in 1804, and educated at the local Academy, where afterwards he became a professor. His work is mainly in decorative materials and in fresco, the most notable being the decoration in the castle of Prince Albert of Prussia, and in the New Museum at Berlin. In the Berlin National Gallery are two pictures by him, one representing Sorrento, and the other Sans Souci. He died at Berlin in 1866.
SCHIRMER, Johann Wilhi-xm, landscape painter, born at Jiilich in 1807, learned drawing from an engineer, and became a bookbinder, which was the trade of his father. In 1826 he became a student in the Academy at Diisseldorf, and attended the studio of Schadow. In 1827 he founded a class, out of which a new school of landscape painting arose. In 1834 he began to travel, making his way successively through the Black Forest, Switzerland, Holland, and Normandy. In 18.39 he visited Italy, and was made professor at the Diisseldorf Academy. In 1853 he was summoned to direct the School of Art at Karlsruhe, and there he died in 1863. The following picture in the Berlin Gallery are by him :
Scene in a German Forest. The Convent of S. Scholasticain the Sabine Mountains. Abraham's Entry into the Promised Land. The Promise in the Grove of Mamre. Abraliam's Intercession for Sodom and Gomorrah. The Fliglit of Lot. Hagar cast out. Hagar in the 'Wilderness. Hagar's Deliverance. Abraham and Isaac going to the Sacrifice. Offering up of Isaac. Abraham and Isaac's lamentation for Sarah. Eliezer and Rehekah at the WelL Burial of Abraham.
SCHISCHKIN, IvAN.Russian painter and etcher;. born at Jelabuga (Wjatka), January 13, 1831; became a pupil of; the Moscow Art School; in 1863 he won the first prize at the St. Petersburg Academy, and three years later he was enrolled as a member. He was successful as a painter of sylvan scenes, but as a draughtsman he won wider fame. Some of his pen-drawings were successfully reproduced by a Diisseldorf firm ; all of them deal with woodland scenery. He obtained the Stanislaus Order and other decorations. He died at St. Petersburg, March 20, 1898.
SCHITZ, Julils, landscape painter, born in Paris, February 9, 1817, was a pupil of R^mont He exhibited frequently at the Salon between 1840 and the time of his death in 1871. He-
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