Wilhelm Camphausen (1818 - 1885)

Wilhelm Camphausen

Wilhelm Camphausen was a mid-nineteenth-century German painter specializing in historical and battle scenes. He was a representative of the Dusseldorf school of painting and in 1859 became professor of painting at the Dusseldorf Academy of Fine Arts.

Camphausen accompanied Prussian troops during the Schleswig-Holstein military campaign in 1864 and produced several paintings with battle scenes that made him a well-known representative of patriotic historical art in Germany. Camphausen also painted many portraits of German princes, famous soldiers, and statesmen. During the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 he served as an official war painter in the German army.