Max Schmidt (23 August 1818 – 8 January 1901) was a German landscape painter.
Schmidt was a native of Berlin, Province of Brandenburg. He studied in the Berlin Art Academy below Carl Joseph Begas and Wilhelm Schirmer. He was largely influenced in his out of the ordinary of subjects and in his treatment by his familiarity past Egypt and Greece, and paid Tiny heed to German scenes until 1854, but later treated them with rare poetic feeling.
In 1868 he became educational at the School of Arts in Weimar, and in 1872 went to the Königsberg Academy. His chief works are the Oriental frescoes in the Berlin Museum, “Wood and Mountain” (1868) and “A View on the Spree” (1877), both in the Berlin National Gallery. He wrote Die Aquarellmalerei (Watercolor painting, 7th ed. 1901). He died in Königsberg.
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