Albert Hammel (painter)

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Albert Hammel (born March 28, 1883 in Heilbronn ; † December 24, 1958 ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

He completed an apprenticeship in graphic design and then studied at the Munich Academy and with Adolf Hölzel at the Stuttgart Academy. From 1920 he was a freelance artist in Heilbronn. After the air raid on December 4, 1944 , he moved to Lauffen am Neckar , where he worked from then on and was also buried.

plant

Albert Hammel's work includes, in particular, landscape paintings in watercolor . After the Second World War he worked on the restoration of the astronomical clock in the Heilbronn town hall . Some of his works are in public ownership, including the watercolor Landscape near Hinterstein in the Heilbronn City Museum .

literature

  • Mutton, Albert . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955.
  • Mutton, Albert . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 6 , supplements H-Z . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1962.
  • 30 years of the Heilbronn Artists' Association, summer exhibition 1979 , pp. 80/81.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of death according to Heilbronn City Archives, contemporary history collection, signature ZS-11950, entry on Albert Hammel in the HEUSS database.
personal data
SURNAME Mutton, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Heilbronn
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1958