Alfred Hamacher

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Alfred Hamacher (born April 7, 1862 in Breslau ; † 1935 , probably in Berlin ) was a German portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Hamacher was the son of the history and portrait painter Theodor Hamacher from Breslau . Like his father, who died young, and his younger brother Willy , Hamacher studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . Heinrich Lauenstein , Hugo Crola and Eugen Dücker were his teachers during his studies at the Düsseldorf Academy, which lasted from 1885 to 1889 . He stayed in the landscape class of the latter in the years 1888/1889. He also took private lessons from Ferdinand Brütt . From 1891 to 1902 Hamacher was a member of the Malkasten artists' association . From 1902 until the 1930s, Hamacher was a sought-after portrait painter in Berlin.

Works (selection)

  • Portrait of a Lady , 1900
  • Half-length portrait of a young lady in a white, lace-trimmed dress , 1900
  • Chest portrait of a boy , 1903
  • Portrait of an elegant young woman with red flowers in her arms and on her hat , 1905
  • The knee of an elegant lady in a white and lilac dress , 1906
  • Portrait of a boy in a sailor suit in a wicker chair , 1908, Great Berlin Art Exhibition
  • Portrait of an elegant lady in front of parkland , 1910
  • Portrait of an old lady , 1924
  • Gustav Adolf Deißmann , portrait, January 1930
  • Richard von Mises , portrait, 1931
  • Ludwig Tuebben , portrait, 1932, archive of the Technical University of Berlin
  • Portrait of a tennis player with a mustache

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Theilmann: The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker . In: Wend von Kalnein (Ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 147
  2. Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (ed.): Die Düsseldorfer Malerschule 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 431
  3. ^ Albrecht Gerber: Deissmann the philologist . Supplements to the Journal for New Testament Science and the Customers of the Older Church, Volume 117, ISBN 978-3-11-022431-3 , p. 207 (Figure 11)
  4. Object Number H642 , data sheet in the harvardartmuseums.org portal , accessed on June 8, 2016
  5. Costume and chain in oil . Article from April 7, 2009 in the portal pressestellle.tu-berlin.de , accessed on June 8, 2016