was, unfortunately, short as lagging sales and continued religious squabbling created financial difficulties. In 1842, she took their two boys to live at her parents' home and gave birth to a daughter there. Lonely, and in poor health since his return from Rome, Zimmermann decided to leave Düsseldorf and establish himself someplace new. The art historian Karl Schnaase recommended Breslau, as the competition with other artists would not be great. Zimmermann wrote to his former pastor in Rome, Richard Rothe, who agreed with that choice and gave him a letter of recommendation to August Hahn, a University Professor. In 1846, Zimmermann retrieved his family and moved there, soon establishing a clientele that included Bishop Heinrich Förster. Most of his paintings during this period were portraits. Due to several bad harvests in the early 1850s, the members of the nobility became unwilling to pay as much for his works as they had previously. Having to pay his own way to and from the remote estates where they sat for their portraits, his profit fell rapidly. In 1855, he began a period of noticeable decline, as his eyesight deteriorated and he was weakened by a Cholera-like illness. Many of his friends rallied to provide support. His old patron Schnaase attempted to find him a teaching position or some form of permanent financial aid. His decline continued, however, and he died in 1859. References Further reading Marius Winzeler: Adolf Gottlob Zimmermann (1799–1859). Das Werk eines wichtigen Nazareners kehrt in die Oberlausitz zurück. In: Görlitzer Magazin. 18/2005, S. 42–50 Hans Geller: Ein Jünger der „göttlichen Kunst“. Das Lebensbild des Nazareners Adolf Zimmermann. In: Neues Lausitzisches Magazin (NLM). Band 110, 1934, S. 171–229 Friedrich von Boetticher: Malerwerke des 19.Jahrhunderts. Beitrag zur Kunstgeschichte. Dresden 1901, Vol. 2/II, S. 1052f. 1799 births 1859 deaths 19th-century German painters German male painters Nazarene movement