Hermann Baumann (lithographer)

Wilhelm Hermann Baumann (born July 23, 1834 in Tübingen ; † April 11, 1908 there ) was a Württemberg painter and lithographer in Tübingen. He was a son of Carl Baumann and a younger brother of Carl Immanuel Baumann .

Tübingen in the 16th century (colored pen drawing, 1860)

Tübingen from northern Österberg 1828 (gouache, around 1860)

Hirschgasse (gouache, around 1890)

Market square (gouache, 1897)

Market square with Kirchgasse (gouache, 1897)

Life

Hermann Baumann was a son of the draftsman, lithographer and photographer Carl Baumann and his wife Catharina Carolina born. Sider. Little is known about his life. His father taught him drawing and lithography. Hermann turned out to be not as gifted as his father and older brother. Nevertheless, he was given his father's lithographic workshop. That should have been around 1855, when he tried to reorient himself and establish himself as a photographer.

Essentially, Hermann Baumann limited his work to lithographs. But he also did gouache painting. He preferred to use Tübingen's vedute from earlier times as templates. Based on the templates of G. Hezel and his father, he presented Tübingen as it looked at the beginning of the 19th century. Sometimes he used much older models, such as those by Matthäus Merian , to show Tübingen in the 16th century. It was his concern to present the charms of the (already then) old Tübingen. The colorful gouaches were and are still very attractive to the viewer. Baumann depicted Tübingen in an idyllic way. It was precisely this idyll that was important to him and not the authenticity of his views. They are characterized by a flattened perspective, which the viewer finds a little awkward but cute. The people depicted appear to have been glued into it, they have no real relationship with their surroundings, their task is limited to filling the depicted area and thus enlivening the views.

Hermann Baumann remained unmarried. At the end of his life he became poor and he spent the last few years in the "Gutleuthaus" in Tübingen.

Well-known work

• 1860 Tübingen from the south in the 17th century (copy after M. Merian, colored pen drawing, Stadtmuseum Tübingen , inv. 1615)
• around 1860 Tübingen from northern Österberg 1828 (gouache, City Museum Tübingen, inv. 250)
• around 1890 Hirschgasse (copy after G. Hezel, gouache, Stadtmuseum Tübingen, inv. 218)
• 1897 Market square from 1825 (copy after G. Hezel, gouache, Stadtmuseum Tübingen, inv. 216)
• 1897 Market square with Kirchgasse from 1825 (copy after G. Hezel, gouache, Stadtmuseum Tübingen, inv. 217)

Notes and individual references

1. ↑ Date of death: Christina Melk: Tübingen views and painters in the 19th century , p. 37, date of birth added from the Tübingen death register from 1908.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Christina Melk: Tübingen Views and Painters in the 19th Century , p. 37

bibliography

• Christina Melk: Tübingen Views and Painters in the 19th Century , Tübingen 1986 (= Tübingen Catalogs No. 27)
• In. “Tübinger Blätter” 1905, 2/3, pp. 42–43

Web links

Commons : Hermann Baumann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files