Georg Hom

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Carl Georg Hom (born June 27, 1838 in Frankfurt am Main , † October 23, 1911 in Berlin ) was a German portrait painter.

Life

Hom learned painting at the State University of Fine Arts - Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main with Jakob Becker . To deepen his studies, he visited the most important galleries in Germany, namely in Dresden, Munich, Kassel and Berlin. In 1874 he moved from Frankfurt to Berlin, where he also became a professor. Hom painted both portrait and genre pictures. He was known for his candlelight paintings. He regularly showed his works in exhibitions in Frankfurt, Berlin and Munich. In 1906 he became a corps bow holder of the Palaio-Alsatia .

His son Hans Hom (1877–1899) had attended the Joachimsthal High School and studied medicine in Strasbourg. He died of typhoid at the age of 22.

Works

  • Portrait of Eduard Rüppell
  • Portrait of Simon Moritz Ponfick
  • Portrait of Empress Sissi of Austria
  • Young woman in a grove by candlelight
  • Good night
  • Mignon
  • The love letter
  • A secret

literature

  • Hom, Georg. In: Hermann Alexander Müller: Biographical Artist Lexicon. Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 265 ( retrobibliothek.de ).
  • Hom, Georg . In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General Artist Lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . 5th unchanged edition. tape 2 : Gaab – Lezla . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1921, p. 201 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 28 , p. 105.
  2. ^ Matriculation of the Corps Palaio-Alsatia from 1880–2015. o. O., o. J., p. 103.
personal data
SURNAME Hom, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hom, Karl Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1911
Place of death Berlin