Eugen Hummel

Eugen Hummel, portrait of Emperor Ferdinand I , around 1836
Carl Eugen Hummel (born November 21, 1812 in Vienna , † after 1845 ) was an Austrian portrait and genre painter.
Life
Hummel was a son of the Viennese portrait painter Carl Hummel (around 1769–1840). In 1829 he began studying at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts . As early as 1831 - at the age of 19 - he exhibited a few pictures there for the first time, also in the years 1834 to 1845. Portraits of the painter Johann Josef Schindler as well as the singer Sabine Heinefetter and the singer Franz Wild , which were exhibited in 1834, are known by name.
After 1845, the trace of Eugen Hummel is lost.
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Hummel, Eugen . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 9th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1863, p. 427 ( digitized version ).
- Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker , General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present , Volume 17, Leipzig 1924, pp. 129f.
- Hummel, Carl. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1965, p. 8 f. (Direct links on p. 8 , p. 9 ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Parish of St. Josef , baptismal register 1812–1824, p. 6 ( digitized version )
- ↑ Mittheilungen from Vienna , ed. by Franz Pietznigg, born 1834, 3rd quarter, delivery July, p. 68 ( digitized version )
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SURNAME | Hummel, Eugene |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hummel, Carl Eugen (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian portrait and genre painter |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 21, 1812 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
DATE OF DEATH | after 1845 |