Frederic Albert Schmidt - Artist Info

About Frederic Albert Schmidt

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Albert Friedrich Schmidt
  • Biography

    Friedrich (Frederic) Albert Schmidt was born in Sundhausen / Alsace in 1846. From 1846 to 1916, Schmidt was in Weimar. He was draftsman, printmaker and painter of landscapes, animals, marine, genre scenes. Schmidt studied at the art academies in Munich, Paris and Florence. His first exhibitions were at the Paris Salon in 1876 and 1878. He was a student of Alfred Böcklin in Florence. He worked from 1885 at the invitation of the Grand Duke Wilhelm Ernst of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Weimar. There, he was a professor from 1905. He also took numerous tours through Italy and other travel.

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