Herman Schmierchen Art for Sale at Auction

b. 1855 -

Hermann Schmiechen (22 July 1855 – c. 1923 or 1925) was a German portrait painter and Theosophist. Hermann Schmiechen was born in Neumarkt, Prussian Silesia. In 1872, he entered the Royal Academy of Arts and Crafts at Breslau, where he learned by Albrecht Bräuer (1830–1897). In 1873, he shifted into Düsseldorf school of painting and became student of Karl Müller and Eduard von Gebhardt, and was also a member of the artists association Malkasten. After studying at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, he learned in Paris at the Académie Julian.

In 1883, on the recommendation of August Becker, Schmichen, almost simultaneously with Karl Rudolf Sohn, was invited into England to paint portraits of the British aristocracy. From 1884 to 1895 he was a member of the Royal Academy of Arts