Carl Irmer

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Painter on the Baltic Sea Beach , around 1885
On the North Sea coast , 1887

Carl Irmer (born August 28, 1834 in Babitz , Brandenburg province ; † November 10, 1900 in Düsseldorf ) was a German landscape painter and etcher from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Gravestone for Carl Irmer at the North Cemetery in Düsseldorf

Irmer trained in Dessau with the court painter Heinrich Beck and since 1855 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Hans Gude . Irmer worked as Gude's assistant at the Düsseldorf Academy. On frequent study trips to Germany , Austria , France and Belgium , he collected the motifs for his delicately perceived, atmospheric flat landscapes, which mostly depict meadows with grazing cattle.

Irmer lived in Düsseldorf and owned the small gold medal from the Düsseldorf art exhibition. His final resting place is in the Düsseldorf North Cemetery .

Works (selection)

literature

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Irmer, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Irmer, Karl (Meyers)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter and etcher
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Babitz , Brandenburg
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1900
Place of death Dusseldorf