Wilhelm Schneider-Didam

Wilhelm Schneider-Didam (14 May 1869 – 5 April 1923) was a German portrait painter of the Düsseldorf school of painting.

Born in Altenhundem, Province of Westphalia, Schneider-Didam first attended the painting and drawing school of the Kölnisches Stadtmuseum in 1886/1887.

[1] There, Hugo Crola, Johann Peter Theodor Janssen and especially the portrait painter Julius Roeting were his teachers.

Until his death he lived in Düsseldorf, where he was a member of the artists' association Laetitia and the Malkasten.

Together with Eugen Kampf, he ran a private painting school for women, the Damenakademien München und Berlin und Malerinnenschule Karlsruhe, which was initially located at Jacobistraße 14a,[2] and later, in the early 20th century, in the so-called Hungerturm, also known as the Eiskellerberg, opposite the Academy of Arts.