Carl Hoff (painter, 1866)
Carl Heinrich Hoff , also Carl Heinrich Hoff the Younger (born August 17, 1866 in Düsseldorf , † January 1 or 2, 1904 at Feldberg in the southern Black Forest ), was a German portrait , genre , still life , landscape and vedute painter as well as lithographer and graphic artist .
Life
Hoff grew up as the eldest son of the painter of the same name Karl Heinrich Hoff (the Elder) and his wife Marie Sohn (1841-1893), a daughter of the Düsseldorf painter Karl Ferdinand Sohn , in Düsseldorf and from 1878 in Karlsruhe, where he worked at the Grand Duchy of Baden Karlsruhe art school , where his father taught as a professor, studying painting and various graphic techniques. His brother was the later Düsseldorf association functionary Ernst Hoff .
From 1881 to 1904, when he had a fatal accident on the Feldberg in the Black Forest, Hoff was artistically active, especially in Karlsruhe and Dachau . He toured France , England and Italy . In 1887, along with Heinrich Deiters , Carl Irmer , Carl Jutz , Franz Stegmann and Max Volkhart, he participated in the collection of 40 original engravings in an art portfolio, which was published in 1888 by Estes & Lauriat in Boston under the title The Dusseldorf Gallery . In 1892 he lived in Paris , where he created impressionistically influenced prints. In 1897 he visited Volendam in the Netherlands . Hoff last lived in a villa in Berghausen near Pfinztal , Karlsruhe district office .
literature
- Hoff, Carl Heinrich . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 17 : Heubel – Hubard . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1924, p. 242 .
Web links
- Carl Heinrich Hoff (the younger) , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
- Carl Heinrich Hoff the Younger , Auction Results on the artnet .com Portal
Individual evidence
- ↑ Carl Heinrich Hoff, the Younger , website in the artoftheprint.com portal , accessed on October 13, 2018
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| SURNAME | Hoff, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hoff, Carl Heinrich; Hoff, Carl Heinrich the Younger (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German portrait, genre, still life, landscape and vedute painter as well as lithographer and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th August 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 1, 1904 or January 2, 1904 |
| Place of death | Feldberg , southern Black Forest |