Hermann Bridge

Hermann Brücke (* 1830 in Berlin , † 1871 in Pisa , Kingdom of Italy ) was a German genre , history and portrait painter .

Life

Portrait of the Berlin manufacturer Albert Meves , 1866, German Historical Museum

Brücke was the son of the Berlin drawing teacher, portrait and history painter Johann Gottfried Brücke . His half-brother was the physician Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke , his uncle the painter Wilhelm Brücke .

Brücke received artistic training from his father. From 1847 to 1849 he was a student at the Berlin Academy . He later studied with Paul Delaroche in Paris and with Louis Gallait in Brussels . From December 1856 to 1861 he stayed in Rome , where he was a member of the German Artists' Association and in 1857 took part in its "Cervarofest". He then worked as a painter in Berlin and was a member of the board of the Berlin Artists Association .

Bridge, Hermann . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Dresden 1891, Volume 1, p. 138.
Hans Vollmer : Bridge, Hermann . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 5 : Brewer-Carlingen . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1911, p. 96 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Bridge, Hermann . In: Kate glasses: The portrait in the Berlin Biedermeier. Attempt to catalog Berlin portraitists, 1820–1850 . Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin 1929, p. 19.

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^ Theodor Siebs : Hermann Allmers. His life and poetry presented using his estate . Ernst Siegfried Mittler and Son, Berlin 1915, p. 113
^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 2, p. 108

personal data
SURNAME	Bridge, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German genre painter, history painter and portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH	1830
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	1871
Place of death	Pisa , Kingdom of Italy