Carl Friedrich Hampe

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Gothic Church by the Sea, 1816

Carl Friedrich Hampe (born July 13, 1772 in Berlin ; † December 29, 1848 there ) was a painter and draftsman of the German Romanticism ,

Carl Friedrich Hampe was accepted into the Prussian Academy of the Arts as a student in 1788 ; there he was tutored from 1790 to 1794 by Johann Gottfried Niedlich and later by Johann Christoph Frisch and Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Wagner.

In 1796 the copper engraving series Scenes from the Seven Years' War was published based on his models; In 1798 he caused a sensation with a double portrait of the Prussian royal couple, walking arm in arm through the Brandenburg Gate . Attempts to do copperplate engravings yourself were unsuccessful.

From 1810 he regularly presented oil paintings at the academy exhibitions, mostly with medieval architecture, making him one of the earliest representatives of the genre of Berlin architecture and interior painting.

Hampe was an autodidact, he went on numerous foot trips, a. a. to Silesia , Bohemia , the Harz Mountains to visit old buildings. The influence of Karl Friedrich Schinkel can be clearly seen in Hampe's architectural compositions.

In 1816 the Academy accepted him as a full member; In 1823 he became a teacher at the academic drawing school, in 1825 professor and inspector of the academy, and in 1828 a member of the Senate.

Most of Hampe's works have been lost; only four historicizing genre representations in the possession of the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg have survived. In 2013 the Bassenge Gallery in Berlin showed his work Gothic Church by the Sea .

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SURNAME Hampe, Carl Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1772
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1848
Place of death Berlin