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[edit]
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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- ^ 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- Hermann Carl Hempel, Datenblatt im Portal rkd.nl (Netherlands Institute for Art History)
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