Emil Zschimmer - Artist Info

About Emil Zschimmer

  • Biography

    Emil Zschimmer was a painter and educator. He was born in 1842, in Großwig Germany.

    From 1853-59, he was a pupil of the orphanage-school in Halle. He first began teaching for pattern makers in a cotton factory in Eilenburg. From 1863-70, he studied at the Grand Ducal Saxon Weimar art school.

    In 1870, his study was interrupted by military service and participation in the Franco-German war. From 1873-81, he became a teacher at the Weimar drawing and crafts school. In 1882, he became a teacher of freehand drawing at the Grand Ducal Saxon school of Art Weimar.

    Starting in 1882, and lasting until 1891, he was a high school teacher in Erfurt. In 1890, he was appointed professo...

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