Hermann Aubel

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Johann Hermann Christian Aubel (born February 6, 1834 in Kassel , † after 1895) was a German landscape painter , illustrator and travel writer .

Life

Aubel, son of the Kassel portrait painter, academy professor and gallery inspector Karl Christian Aubel , first studied at the Kassel Art Academy and then went to Munich , where he turned to landscape painting. In 1854 Aubel became a member of the Munich Art Association . He traveled to Tyrol , Switzerland and Belgium , and in 1856 to Scotland . In the summer of 1869 he took his younger brother Carl on a trip to Lapland and the Kanin Peninsula , from which they brought back observations and sketches, which they published in 1874 as a travel report under the title A polar summer: Journey to Lappland and Kanin . He was also active as a painter in Cologne , Kiel , Hamburg and Dresden . Around 1864 he lived in Groß Königsdorf near Frechen . In the 1880s and 1890s he lived in Düsseldorf , where the city address book still listed him in 1892. After that he lived in Karlsruhe , later in Frankfurt am Main . His travel report about a hike through the Eifel appeared there in 1895 under the title Genzianen und Karolinen: A walk through the Eifel Mountains .

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Aubel created landscape paintings. His early work has strongly accentuated characteristics. His late work is sketchy and with unusual lighting effects.

Illustrations from the book A polar summer: Journey to Lapland and Kanin

  • At the northern tree line

  • On the Murmansky bank

  • Samoyed tents on Kanin

  • The Samokovsky Hills on Kanin

Exhibitions

  • 1861: 2nd General German Art Exhibition , Cologne ( Scottish Heath )
  • 1872: Saint Petersburg (three landscape paintings: birch grove , midnight on Kanin , rocks on the Murmansk bank )
  • 1872: Kaiserslautern (three landscape paintings: birch grove , midnight on Kanin , rocks on the Murmansk bank )

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joseph Sander: The occupational, economic and social structure in Groß Königsdorf - anno 1864 , website in the portal josephsander.wordpress.com , accessed on April 9, 2018
  2. ↑ Address book of the city of Düsseldorf for the year 1892: alphabetical evidence of the Aertze and artists, business and tradespeople, as well as their apartments , p. 688 ( digitized version )
  3. ^ Karl Eugen Schmidt: Vive Montmartre! Sketches and pictures from the Parisian bohemia . Knauer Brothers, Frankfurt am Main 1898, p. 188
  4. ↑ Josef Zierden : The Eifel in literature. A lexicon of authors and works . Gerolstein 1994, p. 20 f.
  5. ^ Hermann Aubel , website in the portal liteifel.de , accessed on April 10, 2018
  6. ^ Sebastian Scharte: Prussian - German - Belgian . Waxmann Verlag, Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-8309-2406-7 , p. 157 ( Google Books )
  7. ↑ Josef Zierden: Vom Glück literary Reisen durch die Eifel , celebratory speech of October 18, 2013, website in the portal liteifel.de , accessed on April 10, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Aubel, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aubel, Johann Hermann Christian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter, illustrator and travel writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH after 1895