Adolf Meckel from Hemsbach

Adolf Meckel von Hemsbach: The Sinai-Katharinenkloster

Adolf Meckel von Hemsbach (born February 17, 1856 in Berlin ; † May 24, 1893 there ) was a German landscape and genre painter .

biography

Adolf Meckel came from the old Kurland noble family Denffer and was a descendant of Johann Friedrich Meckel (the elder; 1724–1774), German anatomist and founder of the Meckel collection .

Adolf Meckel was born in 1856 as the son of the professor of pathological anatomy Johann Heinrich Meckel von Hemsbach (1821-1856) and his wife Theophile von Denffer (1824-1902). After the early death of his father, he spent his childhood with his maternal grandparents in Saint Petersburg. He attended high school in Stuttgart, where he also had his first drawing lessons. He studied painting at the Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts with Hans Fredrik Gude .

From 1880 to 1881 he visited Arab countries with Eugen Bracht and Carl Coven Schirm : Egypt , Palestine , the coast of the Dead Sea, then Jordan. Further trips took him to the countries of the North African Maghreb . Among other things, he visited the St. Catherine's Monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai . In addition to the tropical landscapes, he created numerous oriental genre scenes. After his last return home, he was initially based in Karlsruhe, then moved back to his hometown in 1892.

Meckel was regularly represented with his works at the exhibitions of the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin , the Great Berlin Art Exhibitions and in the Munich Glass Palace , but also in Dresden, Stuttgart and Vienna. A list of over 100 works by Meckel can be found at F. von Boetticher.

Meckel sent four paintings to the Great Berlin Art Exhibition in 1893. “The rejection of a registered fifth painting, which the artist felt as a deep offense, is said to have caused his early death.” In 1893 he committed suicide.

literature

Meckel von Hemsbach, Adolf . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 24 : Mandere – Möhl . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1930, p. 325 .
Meckel, Adolf von. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 2/1, sheets 1–32: Mayer, Ludwig – Rybkowski. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1898, pp. 2-4 ( archive.org ).
Benezit: Dictionnaire des Peintres. Volume 9, p. 427.

Web links

Commons : Adolf Meckel von Hemsbach - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Works by Adolf Meckels on artnet
Biography of Adolf Meckel at Vlaamse Kunstcollectie
Peintres orientalistes allemands (French)

Individual evidence

^ Ludwig Pietsch : Adolf v. Meckel: "At the source of Elisa" . In: The German painting of the present on the anniversary exhibition of the Kgl. Akad. Der Künste zu Berlin 1886. Hanfstaengel, Munich 1886 ( digitized joint library network [GBV]).
^ Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin, catalogs. Common Library Network (GBV), accessed on December 15, 2015 .
^ Great Berlin Art Exhibition (Ed.) Catalog. (No longer available online.) Common Library Network (GBV), archived from the original on October 22, 2014 ; accessed on December 15, 2015 .
^ Great Berlin Art Exhibition (Ed.) Catalog. University of Heidelberg, accessed on December 15, 2015 .
^ Catalogs of the art exhibitions in the Munich Glass Palace 1869-1931. bavarikon, accessed on January 28, 2020 .
↑ ^a ^b Meckel, Adolf von. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 2/1, sheets 1–32: Mayer, Ludwig – Rybkowski. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1898, pp. 2-4 ( archive.org ).

personal data
SURNAME	Meckel von Hemsbach, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Meckel, Adolf von; Meckel, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter
DATE OF BIRTH	February 17, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	May 24, 1893
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Ludwig Pietsch : Adolf v. Meckel: "At the source of Elisa" . In: The German painting of the present on the anniversary exhibition of the Kgl. Akad. Der Künste zu Berlin 1886. Hanfstaengel, Munich 1886 ( digitized joint library network [GBV]).

[2] Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin, catalogs. Common Library Network (GBV), accessed on December 15, 2015 .

[3] Great Berlin Art Exhibition (Ed.) Catalog. (No longer available online.) Common Library Network (GBV), archived from the original on October 22, 2014 ; accessed on December 15, 2015 .

[4] Great Berlin Art Exhibition (Ed.) Catalog. University of Heidelberg, accessed on December 15, 2015 .

[5] Catalogs of the art exhibitions in the Munich Glass Palace 1869-1931. bavarikon, accessed on January 28, 2020 .

[Boetticher-6] Meckel, Adolf von. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 2/1, sheets 1–32: Mayer, Ludwig – Rybkowski. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1898, pp. 2-4 ( archive.org ).