Otto Schwerdgeburth

[1] The Antwerp Academy played an important role in the Belgian historical painting movement.

The murals after designs by Jan Swerts and Godfried Guffens depicted scenes from Antwerp’s glorious trading past in a style reminiscent of the German Nazarene movement.

[3] Under the direction of Jan Swerts and Godfried Guffens, he also worked in 1859 together with Florens Claes on The Seven Sorrows of Mary in the Church of Our Lady in Melsele in Belgium.

In order to make a painting on the execution of Andreas Hofer he travelled to Verona and from there on to Florence, Rome and Naples.

[5] Pictures of Otto Schwerdgeburth are in the collections of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Cologne, in the Kunsthalle Bremen and Schlossmuseum Weimar.

Faust's Easter Stroll (1864)
Christ as a child, standing at a carpenter's bench, etching