Friedrich Schaarschmidt

There, Hugo Crola, Johann Peter Theodor Janssen and Wilhelm Sohn, temporarily also Eduard von Gebhardt and Carl Ernst Forberg, were his teachers.

As a practising artist, Schaarschmidt turned to En plein air.

At the request of Peter Janssen, Schaarschmidt 1893[1] was appointed curator of the art collection of the Düsseldorf Academy as successor of Theodor Levin.

His most important writing is considered to be the work Zur Geschichte der Düsseldorfer Kunst, which was published in 1902 by the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen.

He was also a member of the Düsseldorfer Masonic lodge Rose und Akazie.