Hans Herrmann (painter)
Johann Emil Rudolf Herrmann (born March 8, 1858 in Berlin ; † July 21, 1942 there ; alternative names: Johann Hermann, Hans Hermann ) was a German landscape and genre painter of realism , naturalism and German impressionism .
Life
Herrmann studied at the Berlin Art Academy under Otto Knille , Karl Gussow and Christian Wilberg and at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Eugen Dücker . In the latter's landscape class, he stayed from 1879 to 1882. Regular study trips took him to Holland, where he, among other things, the nature Summer School of George Hitchcock visited France and Italy. He maintained friendships and collaborations with many well-known artists of his time. He was a founding member of the group of the Association of XI (with Max Liebermann and Walter Leistikow ) and the Berlin Academy. From 1879 he regularly and a. in Berlin (Academy and Great Art Exhibition), Munich (Glaspalast), Düsseldorf, Dresden and abroad. Herrmann illustrated for the gazebo from 1886 to 1890 . In the course of his life he mainly created landscape, genre and still lifes between realism, naturalism and impressionism, mainly in numerous paintings and watercolors of Dutch street scenes and landscapes.
Hans Herrmann died in Berlin in 1942 at the age of 84. His grave is in the Zehlendorf cemetery . From 1987 to 2009, the final resting place of Hans Herrmann was dedicated to the State of Berlin as an honorary grave . An inscription plaque on the Herrmann family's hereditary burial in the cemetery of the Bethlehem parish in Berlin-Kreuzberg also commemorates him .
Works (selection)
- Fishing village on the Zuidersee
- Shipyard on the Zuidersee
- Dutch canal view
- View over the Singelgracht to the Luther Church in Amsterdam (Deutsches Schifffahrtsmuseum, Bremerhaven)
- Fish market on a canal in Amsterdam
- The Westerkerk in Amsterdam
literature
- Herrmann, Hans. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1/2, sheets 31–61: Heideck – Mayer, Louis. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1895, pp. 509-510 ( archive.org ).
- Axel Holck : Hans Herrmann . In: Christian Blangstrup (Ed.): Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon . 2nd Edition. tape 11 : Hasselmus – Hven . JH Schultz Forlag, Copenhagen 1921, p. 354 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
- Herrmann, Hans . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 430 .
- Herrmann, Hans (Joh. Emil Rudolf) . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 16 : Hansen – Heubach . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1923, p. 496-497 .
Web links
- Hans Hermann (1858–1942) , data sheet in the rkd.nl portal( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
Individual evidence
- ↑ ULAN
- ^ Hans Herrmann (1858-1942) Flowermarket in Amsterdam, the Munt beyond; signed 'Hans Hermann' (lower right). A lot description from Christie's
- ^ Rudolf Theilmann : The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker. In: Wend von Kalnein (Ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 147.
- ^ Richard Muther: History of painting in the nineteenth century.
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places. Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 674.
- ^ Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial sites. P. 221.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Herrmann, Hans |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Herrmann, Johann Emil Rudolf (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape and genre painter of realism and German impressionism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 8, 1858 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 21, 1942 |
| Place of death | Berlin |