Hermann Carl Hempel
Hermann Carl Hempel (13 April 1848 – 26 September 1921) was a German landscape painter and illustrator of the Düsseldorf school of painting and director of the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf.
Life
Born in Stralsund, Hempel studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. There Andreas Müller was his teacher. He also took lessons with the landscape painter Eugen Dücker.[1] Hempel was a member of the artists' associations Malkasten, Laetitia and Orient. On 13 February 1875, he starred on the Malkasten stage in the farce Das Ständchen.[2] In 1877, he married Adele, the daughter of the Düsseldorf landscape painter Friedrich Heunert. The couple had two children, Friedrich, who became a concert organist, and Klara.[3] From 1883 to 1920 Hempel was director and managing director of the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf.[4] In 1900 and 1902 Hempel stayed in Katwijk.
Hempel died in Düsseldorf at the age of 73.
Work
- Templates for Bad Pyrmont – Souvenirblatt, coloured wood engravings by Richard Brend'amour, 1881[5]
- Wassermühle
- Teilansicht von Moselkern
- Aprilstimmung
- Eifellandschaft mit Gehöft
- Herbstliche Waldstimmung mit Weitblick
- Impressionistische Landschaft
References
- ^ Rudolf Theilmann: Die Schülerlisten der Landschafterklassen von Schirmer bis Dücker. In Wend von Kalnein (ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9, p. 147.
- ^ Das Ständchen, title image in portal digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de, retrieved 14 September 2021
- ^ Wer ist wer? Verlag Hermann Degener, Leipzig 1911, vol. 5, p. 576.
- ^ Entry Hempel, Hermann Carl. In Adreß-Buch der Oberbürgermeisterei Düsseldorf 1889, retrieved in portal adressbuecher.net on 17 May 2016.
- ^ Bad Pyrmont – Souvenirblatt, Website in Portal kunstfreund.eu, retrieved 14 september 2021.
Further reading
- Hans Vollmer ed, Hempel, H. C. in Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Created by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. Vol. 16: Hansen–Heubach. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1923, p. 370.
External links
- Hermann Carl Hempel, Datenblatt im Portal rkd.nl (Netherlands Institute for Art History)
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