Anton Hallmann

Portrait of Anton Hallmann, drawn by Rudolf Lehmann , Rome around 1845

Anton Hallmann (* 1812 in Hanover ; † August 28, 1845 in Livorno ) was a German painter , draftsman and writer .

Life

Hallmann attended the Academy in Munich after an apprenticeship with the architect Ludwig Hellner in Hanover . In 1833 he went on foot through Tyrol to Italy , where he stayed in Rome until 1836 , interrupted by trips to Sicily . In 1834 he joined forces with the art historian Wilhelm Schulz from Dresden to publish a work on monuments to medieval art in southern Italy . The work did not appear in print until 1860. Hallmann returned to Munich in 1837, but went to Petersburg the following year, then to England and France. Returning to Rome in the spring of 1841, he painted architectural pictures in oil, including the monastery garden near Fossa Nuova. In 1842 he published the work Kunstbestrebungen der Gegenwart . In 1843 he traveled to Rome again and completed several large oil paintings here, among which the painting A Day in Cyprus is characterized by richness of composition and opulence of the imagination. In 1844 he painted a large dilapidated villa with evening lighting for the King of Prussia . In 1845 he was one of the founders of the German Artists' Association in Rome. He died of malaria on his return to Germany in the same year .

Works (selection)

Santa Maria Maggiore , Rome 1833
Convent and latomies of the Capuchins in Syracuse , 1835
Santa Croce, 1836

Fonts

Monuments of Art of the Middle Ages in Lower Italy , posthumously ed. by Ferdinand von Quast and Ernst Strehlke . Dresden 1860.

literature

Wilhelm Rothert : General Hannoversche Biography , Vol. 2: In the Old Kingdom of Hanover 1814–1866 . Sponholtz, Hannover 1914, p. 538
Robert Dohme: Hallmann, Anton . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 444.
Sabine Kimpel : The painter-architect Anton Hallmann (1812–1845). Life and work with an oeuvre directory. Dissertation. Munich 1974
The partial estate is in the Bavarian State Library and is digitized

Web links

Commons : Anton Hallmann - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 2, p. 234
↑ o. V .: Hallmann, Anton in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library [undated], last accessed on July 25, 2018

personal data
SURNAME	Hallmann, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter, draftsman and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	1812
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hanover
DATE OF DEATH	August 28, 1845
Place of death	Livorno

[1] Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 2, p. 234

[GWLB-2] . V .: Hallmann, Anton in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library [undated], last accessed on July 25, 2018