Hermann Anschütz

German painter and professor

Hermann Anschütz

Born	(1802-10-12)12 October 1802 Koblenz, Rhin-et-Moselle, First French Republic
Died	30 August 1880(1880-08-30) (aged 77) Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire
Nationality	German
Known for	history painting

Hermann Anschütz (12 October 1802 – 30 August 1880) was a German painter and professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.^[1] He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.

Anschütz was born in Koblenz. His father Joseph Andreas Anschütz was an eminent musician and was in charge of a school for vocal and instrumental instruction, and Hermann's younger brother Karl Anschütz ended up as an opera conductor in the United States.

He lived at Promenade Straße 1 in Munich around 1850.^[2] He died in Munich, where he was buried on the Old Southern Cemetery (Alter Südfriedhof).

References

^ footnote at Künstlerische Ausbildung.
^ Paul Maucher: Alphabetic register of house owners 1849-1851 Archived 6 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine, p. 1.