Johann Wilhelm Cordes, a landscape painter, was born at Lübeck in 1824, and died in 1869 at Weimar, where he was professor at the school of arts. A 'Park in Winter,' and 'Hunting the Wild Game,' are two of his productions.
This article incorporates text from the article "CORDES, Wilhelm" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.