where Ingres showed especial interest in his compositions, and in 1855 settled in Rome. Professor and member of Accademia di San Luca since 1878. Works: Temple at Pæstum; Puzzuoli with Procida and Ischia; Mount Ætna; Pontine Swamps; Villa Mattei; The Palatine Hill; Strand of Viareggio; Convent Yard of Albano, Duke of Coburg, Vienna; Bay of La Spezia, Carlsruhe Gallery; View of Rome (1869), View of Naples, Fürstenberg Gallery, Donaueschingen.—D. Kunstbl. (1851), No. 37; (1852), No. 13; (1853), 198; (1858), 25; Kugler, Kl. Schriften, iii. 715, 731, 736; Land und Meer (1873), ii. 890.
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LINDENSCHMIT, WILHELM, the
elder, born in Mentz,
March 12, 1806, died
there, March 12, 1848.
History painter, pupil
of Munich and Vienna
Academies; studied also
the masterpieces in the
Belvedere Gallery; returned
to Munich and
assisted Cornelius in the
fresco cycle in the arcades of the royal garden,
and, with Philip Foltz, in the decoration
of the new palace. Called to Meiningen,
he painted in Castle Landsberg a cycle
from Saxon history, then returned to Mentz.
Works: Artist's Family; Fight of Cimbrian
Women against Romans, Munich Art Union;
Heroism of Duke Erich of Brunswick, Hanover
Art Union; Battle of Arminius (1839),
Carlsruhe Gallery; Old German Huntsmen
camping beside a Hill; Battle of Sendling—1705,
Death of Duke Luitpold in Battle near
Pressburg, New Pinakothek, Munich; Entry
of Otto the Great into Augsburg. Frescos:
Victory of Louis the Rich over Albrecht
Achilles of Brandenburg, Arcades, Royal
Garden, Munich; Battle of Sendling, Scenes
after Poems by Schiller, Royal Palace, Munich;
Two Scenes from Life of Leonardo
da Vinci, Loggia, Munich Gallery; Cycle
from History of Bavaria, Castle Hohenschwangau;
Cycle from History of Saxony
(1840), Castle Landsberg, Meiningen. His
brother Ludwig (born in Mentz, Sept. 4,
1809), pupil in Munich of Cornelius, also
distinguished himself as a history painter,
but afterwards took up archæology.—Allgem.
d. Biogr., xviii. 695; Allgem. K. Ch.,
ix. 609; Cotta's Kunstbl. (1831), 400; (1846),
46; D. Kunstbl. (1857), 263; Förster, v. 64,
82; Raczynski, ii. 265.
LINDENSCHMIT, WILHELM, the
younger, born in Munich, June 20, 1829.
History painter, son of Wilhelm, the elder,
pupil of Munich Academy, then of Städel
Institute in Frankfort, and of Antwerp Academy;
continued his studies in Paris, and in
1853 settled in Frankfort; removed in 1863
to Munich, where he became professor at
the Academy (1875). Member of Berlin
Academy. Gold medal, Berlin, 1870. In
1885 he restored successfully his father's
fresco painting—Victory of Louis the Rich
at Giengen, in the Arcades of the Royal
Garden at Munich. Works: Harvest, Hamburg
Gallery; Alva and the Countess of Rudolstadt;
Seizure of Francis I. in Battle of
Pavia (1858, cartoon); Episode from History
of Lützow's Corps (1860); Death of Franz
von Sickingen (1861); Assembly of Reformers
at Marburg and Institution of Order
of Jesus (1862, cartoons); Waldbilder (The
Dream, The Duel, etc., 1862); German Hall
of Fame (1863, cartoon); Luther as a Scholar
singing for Bread; Fisherman and Mermaid
(1868), Schack Gallery, Munich; Institution
of Order of Jesus (1868); Young Luther
with Andreas Proles (1869); Ulrich von Hutten
fighting French Nobles (1869), Leipsic
Museum; Knox and the Iconoclasts; Murder
of William of Orange (1872); Venus
beside Body of Adonis; Narcissus; Walter
Raleigh in the Tower visited by his Family
(1873), Königsberg Museum; Luther's Conversation
with Cardinal Tommaso de Vio,
Wiesbaden Gallery; Faust in Auerbach's
Cellar (1880); Tetzel's Sale of Indulgences
(1881); Episode in Youth of Elizabeth of
England (1881); The Civic Virtues (frescos,
1883), Town-hall, Kaeufburen; Alaric
