Hermann Behmer

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Hermann Behmer in the studio in Weimar around 1910

Hermann Karl Engelhardt Behmer (born November 13, 1831 in Merzien , † July 24, 1915 in Weimar ) was a German portrait , genre and history painter .

Life

Behmer studied from 1853 in Berlin with Carl Steffeck , from 1855 at the Royal Prussian Academy of the Arts as a student of Eduard Holbein . From 1856–1861 he was a student of Thomas Couture and Charles Damour in Paris, and from 1859 studied at the École des beaux-arts under Hippolyte Flandrin . After 1861 he went to study in Italy, from 1866 to 1868 he was traveling in Egypt and Palestine and then based in Berlin. From 1866 he regularly took part in the Berlin Academy exhibitions. He moved to Weimar in 1873 and worked as a portrait painter for the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie. In 1876 he took part in the World's Fair in Philadelphia and received a medal.

Works

  • Interior with a family, 1857, oil / cardboard, 27 × 35.5 cm, sign. ul: Marlotte 1857 H. Behmer, Weimar, Klassik Stiftung Weimar, art collections, inv. No. G 652
  • Straße in Marlotte, 1857, oil / cardboard, 25.3 × 34 cm, inscribed. ul: Marlotte 1857, re. ur: H. Behmer, Weimar, Klassik Stiftung Weimar, art collections, inv. No. G 653

literature

  • Lisa Hackmann: Behmer, Hermann In: Savoy, Bénédicte and Nerlich, France (Ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital. Volume 2: 1844-1870. Berlin / Boston 2015.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death register StA Weimar, No. 478/1915
personal data
SURNAME Behmer, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Behmer, Hermann Karl Engelhardt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German portrait, genre and history painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Merzien
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1915
Place of death Weimar