Caesar Bimmermann
Peter Franz Caesar Bimmermann (born March 3, 1821 in Eupen , Rhine Province , † July 16, 1888 in the Netherlands ) was a German-Dutch landscape painter .
Life
Bimmermann was a student of the landscape painter Barend Cornelis Koekkoek . Since the end of the 1840s he lived and worked in Kleve , later he settled in Düsseldorf . In 1871 he was naturalized as a Dutchman, living in Arnhem .
In the 1880s, Bimmermann was represented at exhibitions in Bremen and Hanover. His preferred subjects were snowy winter landscapes, often combined with hunting and animal motifs.
Works (selection)
- Mountain landscape with hunters on a body of water , 1859, oil on canvas, 81 × 89 cm
- Romantic winter landscape with a castle , 1876, oil on canvas, 66 × 94 cm
- Evening winter landscape with a wooden cart , 1879, oil on canvas, 29.5 × 45 cm
- Rotwild im Winterwald , 1883, signed and inscribed "Bimmermann Ddf 1883", oil on canvas, 94.5 × 77 cm
- Dead deer in the evening winter forest , 1885, oil on canvas, 77 × 64 cm
literature
- Bimmermann, Caesar . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Dresden 1891, Volume 1, p. 94.
- Hans Vollmer : Bimmermann, Caesar . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 4 : Bida – Brevoort . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1910, p. 35 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Hans Paffrath / Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting . Vol. 1, F. Bruckmann, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7654-3009-9 , appendix, p. 439.
Web links
- Caesar Bimmermann , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
- Caesar Bimmermann , Auction Results on the Portal artnet .de
Individual evidence
- ^ JH Möller: Kyburg, the ancestral castle on the maternal side of Rudolf v. Habsburg . Verlag von S. Bleuler-Hausheer, Winterthur 1866, p. 45 ( Google Books )
- ↑ Angelika Nollert: Barend Cornelis Koekkoek 1803–1862. A landscape painter of the Dutch Romanticism . European University Papers, Volume 368, Peter Lang, 2001, ISBN 978-3-6313-6417-8 , p. 30
- ^ Staatsblad van het Koningrijk der Nederlanden , Issue No. 49 of June 14, 1871, p. 1 ( Google Books )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bimmermann, Caesar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bimmermann, Peter Franz Caesar (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Dutch landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 3, 1821 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eupen , Rhine Province |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 16, 1888 |
| Place of death | Netherlands |