Heinrich Hellhoff

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Heinrich Hellhoff (born April 30, 1868 in Pritzwalk , Ostprignitz ; † August 28, 1914 died in Liège , Belgium ) was a German painter .

Life

Hellhoff studied at the Berlin Academy of the Arts under Woldemar Friedrich and Carl Saltzmann . From 1895 he exhibited regularly at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition and in the years 1898, 1899 and 1907 to 1909 in the Munich Glass Palace . He mainly portrayed aristocrats , artists and senior officers. Stylistically, his painting can be classified under realism .

Works (selection)

Portraits

A contemporary review

An editor of the Vossische Zeitung looks at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition. In the morning edition of March 1, 1910, his criticism appears on pp. 17 to 18 (extract):

“The fourteen portraits of men by Hellhoff provide the most unrestricted satisfaction. The art of portraiture is excellent in every respect, with regard to the conception of personalities, the speaking liveliness in which they are presented in front of us, the solid drawing and painterly treatment, the individual face of each individual, the luminous color effect and the plastic emergence the picture plane. Portraits of mostly higher officers form the majority. Among the portraits of non-military men, those whose originals are known to me, that of the painter Rummelspacher , that (painted in full life-size figure) of the deputy Count Schwerin, and that of the court opera singer Knüpfer, show the most vivid resemblance - his quality, which certainly also applies to the other portraits will not be lacking. "

literature

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Hellhoff  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ criticism. In: Digital dictionary of the German language .
personal data
SURNAME Hellhoff, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Pritzwalk , Ostprignitz
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1914
Place of death Liege