{"id":8464,"count":0,"description":"Vil\u00e9m Str\u00f6minger was born on June 9, 1845 in Prague and died on June 27, 1901 in Prague-Vinohrady. He was a Czech landscape painter.\r\n\r\nThe eldest of four children, Vil\u00e9m was born into the family of the portrait and history painter Jakub Str\u00f6minger (*1816 in Josefov) and his wife Terezie, n\u00e9e Le\u0161\u00e1kov\u00e1 (Le\u017e\u00e1kov\u00e1). The family lived in the Prague district of Nov\u00e9 M\u011bsto at \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nsk\u00e1 Street no. 352\/II. Vil\u00e9m was baptized in St. Stephen's Church and his godfather was the factory worker Wilhelm Preiss. It can be assumed that Vil\u00e9m was apprenticed to his father and possibly further trained by his later father-in-law Anton\u00edn Gareis the Elder. His younger brother Jaroslav Str\u00f6minger (born 1862) was also a painter and was described as an academic portrait painter on his police application.\r\n\r\nIn 1868, Wilhelm appeared at the christening of his first daughter in Sm\u00edchov. There, on July 29, 1869, he married Johanna Gareis (March 10, 1845 Prague - after 1901), the daughter of the painter Anton\u00edn Jan Gareis from Nusle. This marriage produced four children: Maria (1868-1951), Terezia (*1872), Eleonora (*1875) and Vil\u00e9m (*1870), who later became a mechanical engineer. The family lived in Vr\u0161ovice, a suburb of Prague, until 1900 and then moved to Vinohrady.\r\n\r\nStr\u00f6minger was a versatile painter with a broad spectrum of expressive forms ranging from Romanticism to Realism. His landscape painting was strongly influenced by earlier generations, including August Bed\u0159ich Piepenhagen, Josef Mat\u011bj Navr\u00e1til and Hugo Ullik. His paintings, mainly oil paintings, often show a classical composition of three planes (foreground, surroundings, background) with a small stagecoach in the foreground. While very few large-format and medium-sized paintings have survived, there are numerous small-format paintings. His landscapes are often dominated by castle architecture or city towers. The signature \"V. Str\u00f6minger\" is usually written in capital letters, often with a simple \"V\". The majority of his paintings are neither signed nor dated, and there is speculation as to whether some works may have been painted by Str\u00f6minger's father or his wife.\r\n\r\nThe most valuable collection of eight large-format, mostly signed paintings by Str\u00f6minger is in the possession of the Museum of the Capital City of Prague. It contains unique views of unpreserved parts of the city's architecture from Sm\u00edchov, Libe\u0148 or Vr\u0161ovice, as well as a unique view of the Chain Bridge under the castle in D\u011b\u010d\u00edn.","link":"https:\/\/collection.galerie-gerdes.com\/en\/c\/artist-en-2\/vilem-stroeminger-en\/","name":"Vilem str\u00f6minger","slug":"vilem-stroeminger-en","taxonomy":"product_cat","parent":1857,"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collection.galerie-gerdes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat\/8464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collection.galerie-gerdes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collection.galerie-gerdes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/product_cat"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collection.galerie-gerdes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat\/1857"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/collection.galerie-gerdes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?product_cat=8464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}