Georg Schildknecht - Artist Info

About Georg Schildknecht

  • Biography

    Georg Schildknecht was a German genre and portrait painter. He studied at the academies in Nuremberg and Düsseldorf and later became a professor at the Art Academy in Leipzig from 1875-81. In 1881, he moved to Munich where he spent the rest of his life. Schildknecht was known for his genre and portrait paintings and had a retrospective exhibition in 1924 at the Old National Museum in Munich

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