Painter. He received received as a German artist during the 19th century. Hermann Anton Stilke was well-known for painting religious and romantic themes. His most-noted paintings are "Joan of Arc's Death at the Stake" and "Appearance of Saints Catherine and Michael to Joan of Arc" which were done in oil in 1843 as part of the series of paintings on the life of Joan of Arc. These two paintings are displayed on either side of his larger centerpiece of Joan of Arc riding a white horse into battle, "The Life of Joan of Arc Triptych." These three paintings are on display in The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. He studied at the Berlin Art Academy, moved in 1821 to the Munich Academy of Arts, and then the Academy of Art at Dusseldorf. He painted with his classmates, including Herman Anschutz, the large fresco "The Last Judgment" in the Assisensaal in Koblenz. He painted several other frescoes in the arcades in Munich. He traveled to Italy to study art from 1827 to 1828, returning to the Art Academy at Dusseldorf in 1833. He held a teaching position there from 1839 to 1843. From 1842 to 1846 he painted six large murals in the Knights Hall of the Stolzenfels Castle, while it was being rebuilt for the Prussian Crown Prince, Frederick William IV. Today, the castle, which survived two world wars, is under the Director of General Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate and Castles Antiquities . By 1850 he had settled in Berlin. His other paintings include "Crusader Guard" painted in 1834; "St. George with the Angel;" "Pilgrims in the Desert," which is displayed in the National Gallery in Berlin; "The Virgin of Orléans;" "The Last Christians in Syria" painted in 1841 and displayed in the Museum in Königsberg; "Robbery of Sons of Eduard," which is displayed at the National Gallery in Berlin. He married a noted water colorist, Hermione S. Peipers. The couple had a son, who became a book publisher. His self-portrait was sold in 2001 at Christie's in the Netherlands.