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Ferdinand Theodor Hildebrandt

18041874

German painter. He was a pupil of Schadow, and, on Schadow's appointment to the presidency of a new academy in the Rhenish provinces in 1828, followed him to Düsseldorf. Hildebrandt began to paint illustrations to the works of Goethe and Shakespeare, and produced Faust and Mephistopheles (1824), Faust and Margaret (1825), and Lear and Cordelia (1828).

1 artwork in collection

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