Anton Hansmann

Anton Hansmann (* 1821 in Cologne ; † after 1870) was a German portrait and miniature painter.

Life

Hansmann's biography can only be reconstructed fragmentarily. From 1841 to 1850 he stayed in Paris as a student of Louis-Charles-Auguste Couder and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres . He then went on a trip to Italy from 1850 to 1852, only to stay in Paris again from 1852 onwards. From 1854 at the latest, he received state and private contracts there. In 1860 he took part in the Berlin Academy Exhibition, in 1861 and the Paris Salon and in 1863 at the Salon des Refusés .

Works

• Timoleon d'Espinay, seigneur de Saint-Luc, Marcheal de France (? –1644), copy after a painting from the 17th century, 1846, oil / canvas, 71 × 55 cm, Versailles, Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, Inv. No. MV 1049
• Christoph Willibald von Gluck (1714–1787), copy after Joseph Siffred Duplessis, oil / canvas, 74 × 56 cm, Versailles, Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, inv. No. MV 4583
• La vierge, l'enfant Jésus et St. Jean, copy after Simon Vouet, whereabouts unknown (Paris, AMN e)
• Self-portrait, copy after Anthony van Dyck, whereabouts unknown (Paris, AMN e)
• Portrait of Baron Henri de Vicq, copy after Peter Paul Rubens, whereabouts unknown (Paris, AMN e) *
• Portrait de sa majesté l'Impératrice (Eugénie), copy after Franz Xaver Winterhalter, whereabouts unknown (Base Arcade b)
• Mona Lisa, copy after Leonardo da Vinci, whereabouts unknown (Paris, AMN e)
• Le mendiant, copy after Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, whereabouts unknown (ibid.)

literature

• Tino Mager and Jennifer Fischer-Falckenberg: Hansmann, Anton In: Savoy, Bénédicte and Nerlich, France (ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital. Volume 2: 1844-1870. Berlin / Boston 2015.