Alexander Herrmann (painter)
Alexander Herrmann (born May 1, 1814 in Glauchau , † October 29, 1845 in Rome ) was a German architecture and landscape painter .
Life
Born in Glauchau, Alexander Herrmann studied from 1831 to 1835 at the Academy of Fine Arts and Building School in Dresden with Joseph Thürmer and Gottfried Semper . In 1838 Herrmann went to Munich and in 1839 he moved to Italy, where he stayed mainly in Rome and joined the group of German Romans . Travels from there led Alexander Herrmann to Olevano , Sicily , to Lake Garda , where he met the romantic Heinrich Dreber , the Danish landscape painter Niels Frederik Martin Rothe (1816–1880) and Emil Gottlieb Schuback in 1843 , and repeatedly to Venice .
Mainly active as an architecture and landscape painter, Herrmann exhibited in the Leipzig Art Association from 1837 to 1845 , and in the exhibition of the Berlin Academy in 1842 and 1844 and in the Saxon Art Association .
Schuback made another portrait drawing of him in January 1845. In October of the same year Alexander Herrmann died in Rome and was buried there in the Protestant cemetery .
Works (selection)
- Powder Tower in Prague , watercolor and pencil
- Old village church in Coswig , watercolor and pencil (around 1834)
- Gate and courtyard of the Academy in Venice , watercolor (1837)
- Landscape near Arco , oil on paper (1839)
- Baptismal font in the church of San Zeno Maggiore in Verona, watercolor (1839)
- Baptistery in San Marco in Venice , watercolor (1839)
- Port of Palermo with Santa Maria della Catena , oil on canvas
- Mass in the Cappella Palatina in the Royal Palace in Palermo, oil on paper
- Mass in the Cathedral of Santa Maria Nuova in Monreale near Palermo, oil on paper (1840)
- Ruins of Paestum (1840)
- At the well , oil on canvas (1841)
- The Valley of the Temples in Agrigento , oil on canvas (1842)
literature
- Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia , 2nd Edition, Volume 4, KG Saur, Munich, 2006, ISBN 978-3-598-25034-7 , p. 749
Web links
- Alexander Herrmann , on Mageda, accessed on July 11, 2018
- Alexander Herrmann , on Artnet, accessed on July 11, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Prange: Heinrich Dreber met the Saxon landscape painter and architect Alexander Herrmann (1814–1845) on Lake Garda, they were joined by the Danish landscape painter Niels Frederik Martin Rothe (1816–1880) and the Hamburg artist Emil Schuback (1820–1902). There they spent several weeks in Torbole on the north-eastern shore of Lake Garda, until they set off for Venice together. , on pen drawing by Heinrich Dreber, Burg Naco am Lago di Loppio, 1843, at Hamburger Kunsthalle, accessed on July 13, 2018
- ^ Protestant Cemetery year index: Alexand. Herrmann, 1845, Germany, # 1417
- ↑ Alexander Herrmann, view of the ruins of Paestum, 1840 , drawing in the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Kupferstich-Kabinett, inventory no. C 2651, on Deutsche Fotothek
- ↑ Alexander Herrmann, Am Brunnen - Italian farmers washing their clothes in the abandoned monastery garden, oil on canvas. 103 cm x 136 cm. Signed and dated lower left A. Herrmann, 1841
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Herrmann, Alexander |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architecture and landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 1, 1814 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Glauchau |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 29, 1845 |
| Place of death | Rome |