Hermann August Philips

Hermann August Philips (born May 25, 1844 in Aachen , † October 17, 1927 in Munich ) was a German genre and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Seated girl with mandolin , Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal

Philips was the youngest of three sons of the Aachen cigar manufacturer August Abraham Philips (born March 10, 1810 in Zaltbommel , later in Maastricht , brother of the tobacco trader Lion Philips ) and his wife Catharina Charlotte Amalie van Gülpen (born October 1, 1819 in Aachen, daughter of the cloth manufacturer Joseph van Gülpen ). In 1859 the family moved from Aachen. Philips studied painting from 1863 to 1868 with Edward von Steinle at the Städelsche Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt am Main . He then worked in Antwerp , Düsseldorf and Offenbach am Main (later his parents 'residence), and since 1870 in Munich, where he sent exhibitions in the Glaspalast and was a member of the Munich Artists' Cooperative. He spent several winters in Rome , from around October 1879 to 1880.

Philips married the German portrait and genre painter Maria (Marie) Weber, who called herself Philips-Weber , a student at the women's painting school of Wilhelm von Lindenschmit the Younger and Heinrich Stelzner (1833–1910) in Munich. At the age of 83, Philips died completely impoverished in Munich.

literature

Philips, Hermann . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume II / 1, Dresden 1896, p. 266.
Philips, Hermann August . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 26 : Olivier – Pieris . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1932.

Web links

Hermann August Philips , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( RKD - Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis )
Hermann August Philips , entry in the portal kunst-und-kultur.de
Hermann Philips , auction results on the portal artnet .com

Individual evidence

^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
↑ August Philips , genealogical Sheet in the Portal familienbuch-euregio.eu , accessed on February 21, 2020
^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 2, p. 450
^ Horst Ludwig : Bruckmanns Lexikon der Münchner Kunst . Munich painter in the 19th century . Fourth volume: Saffer – Zwengauer . FA Bruckmann, Munich 1983, p. 341
↑ Arthur Hübscher : The Schopenhauer picture by Hermann August Philips . In: XXV. Yearbook of the Schopenhauer Society . 1938, pp. 301–305 ( PDF )

personal data
SURNAME	Philips, Hermann August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Philips, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German genre and portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH	May 25, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH	Aachen
DATE OF DEATH	October 17, 1927
Place of death	Munich

[1] Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )

[2] August Philips , genealogical Sheet in the Portal familienbuch-euregio.eu , accessed on February 21, 2020

[3] Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 2, p. 450

[4] Horst Ludwig : Bruckmanns Lexikon der Münchner Kunst . Munich painter in the 19th century . Fourth volume: Saffer – Zwengauer . FA Bruckmann, Munich 1983, p. 341

[5] Arthur Hübscher : The Schopenhauer picture by Hermann August Philips . In: XXV. Yearbook of the Schopenhauer Society . 1938, pp. 301–305 ( PDF )