Carl Hummel (landscape painter)
Carl Maria Nicolaus Hummel (born August 31, 1821 in Weimar , † June 16, 1906 in Weimar) was a German landscape painter and etcher .
Life
Carl Hummel was a son from the marriage of the composer Johann Nepomuk Hummel with Elisabeth Röckel . He studied under Friedrich Preller until 1841 at the Princely Free Drawing School in Weimar , with whom he also undertook study trips to England, Norway, Rügen and later to Tyrol, stayed in Italy and Sicily from 1842-46 and then settled in Weimar, where he lived in 1860 Professor at the newly founded Grand Ducal Saxon Art School .
His oil and watercolor paintings, the motifs of which are mostly taken from the Tyrolean and Italian Alps, are characterized by a fine feeling for nature and a romantic, poetic approach. The museums in Leipzig and Stuttgart have pictures of him, others are in Berlin, Meiningen, Petersburg etc. The picture The Gardens of Armida is in the Weimar Palace .
family
Carl Hummel married on August 15, 1845 in Weimar Alexandra Völkel (born March 10, 1825 in Weimar; † July 4, 1911 there), a daughter of the lawyer Julius Adolf Völkel (1780-1846), who was secretary in the cabinet of Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna was active. One of his three sons was the future chemist Wilhelm Hummel .
museum
- Goethe Gallery and Schiller Hall, Residenz, Weimar, 2 watercolor, 1846, Musée de la Vie romantique , Hôtel Scheffer-Renan, Paris.
literature
- Carl Hummel . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 18 : Hubatsch – Ingouf . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1925, p. 127 .
- Paul Schmaling: Artist Lexicon Hessen-Kassel 1777–2000. With the painters' colonies Willingshausen and Kleinsassen. Jenior, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-934377-96-3 .
- Obituary notice for Professor Carl Hummel. In: Weimar newspaper , 96th vol., No.140, Tuesday, June 19, 1906.
- Entry no. 332 in the Book of the Dead 1888–1913 of the Catholic Parish Weimar
Web links
- Literature by and about Carl Hummel in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hummel, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hummel, Carl Maria Nicolaus (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape painter and etcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 31, 1821 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Weimar |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 16, 1906 |
| Place of death | Weimar |