![Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow - The Brothers Friedrich and Rudolph Schadow with the Sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen [1815]](http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5815/21264464535_2ddbdfe2d2_o.jpg)
Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow (Berlin, September 7, 1789 - Düsseldorf, March 19, 1862) was a German Romantic painter. Schadow's fame rests less on his own artistic creations than on the school he formed. In Düsseldorf a reaction set in against the spiritual and sacerdotal style he had established and, in 1859, the party of naturalism, after a severe struggle, drove Director Schadow from his chair. A monument was erected in the square which bears his name at a jubilee held to commemorate his directorate.
[Alte und Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin - Oil on canvas, 89 x 114 cm]