Friedrich Wasmann

Rudolph Friedrich Wasmann (8 August 1805, Hamburg – 10 May 1886, Merano) was a German-born painter in the Biedermeier style.

At the age of seventeen, he began an apprenticeship with the painter Christoffer Suhr.

From 1832 to 1835 he lived in Rome, where he came under the influence of Friedrich Overbeck, Joseph Anton Koch, and other members of the Nazarene movement.

[1] After six more years spent in Merano and Bolzano, where he worked as a portrait painter, he returned to Hamburg, where he was introduced to his future wife, Emilie Krämer.

In addition to portraits, he produced landscapes and religiously-themed works in Nazarene style as well as a popular autobiography.