Hermann Carl Hempel

Hermann Carl Hempel , painting by Wilhelm Schneider-Didam , 1907

Hermann Carl Hempel (born April 13, 1848 in Stralsund ; † September 26, 1921 in Düsseldorf ) was a German landscape painter and illustrator of the Düsseldorf School and director of the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf .

Life

Hempel studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There was Andreas Müller his teacher. He also took lessons from the landscape painter Eugen Dücker . Hempel was a member of the artists' associations Malkasten , Laetitia and Orient . On February 13, 1875 he worked on the Malkastenbühne in the posse Das Ständchen as the main actor. In 1877 he married Adele, the daughter of the Düsseldorf landscape painter Friedrich Heunert . The couple had two children, Friedrich, who became a concert organist, and Klara. From 1883 to 1920 Hempel was director and managing director of the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf . In 1900 and 1902 Hempel stayed in Katwijk .

Works (selection)

Bad Pyrmont - Souvenirblatt , 1881, wood engraving by Richard Brend'amour based on a template by Hermann Carl Hempel

Templates for Bad Pyrmont - souvenir sheet , colored wood engravings by Richard Brend'amour , 1881
Watermill
Partial view of Moselkern
April mood
Eifel landscape with homestead
Autumn forest mood with a view
Impressionist landscape

literature

Hempel, HC In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General encyclopedia of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 16 : Hansen – Heubach . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1923, p. 370 .

Web links

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

Hermann Carl Hempel , data sheet in the rkd.nl portal( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )

Individual evidence

^ Rudolf Theilmann : The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker . In: Wend von Kalnein (Ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 147.

↑ Inventory list , website in the malkasten.org portal , accessed on May 17, 2016

↑ Das Ständchen , title recording in the portal digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de , accessed on May 17, 2016

↑ Who is it? Verlag Hermann Degener, Leipzig 1911, Volume 5, p. 576.

^ Entry Hempel, Hermann Carl . In: Address book of the Lord Mayor's Office Düsseldorf 1889 , accessed on the adressbuecher.net portal on May 17, 2016.

^ Bad Pyrmont - Souvenirblatt , website in the portal kunstfreund.eu , accessed on May 17, 2016.

personal data
SURNAME	Hempel, Hermann Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German landscape painter and illustrator as well as museum director
DATE OF BIRTH	April 13, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stralsund
DATE OF DEATH	September 26, 1921
Place of death	Dusseldorf

[1] Rudolf Theilmann : The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker . In: Wend von Kalnein (Ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 147.

[2] Inventory list , website in the malkasten.org portal , accessed on May 17, 2016

[3] Das Ständchen , title recording in the portal digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de , accessed on May 17, 2016

[4] Who is it? Verlag Hermann Degener, Leipzig 1911, Volume 5, p. 576.

[5] Entry Hempel, Hermann Carl . In: Address book of the Lord Mayor's Office Düsseldorf 1889 , accessed on the adressbuecher.net portal on May 17, 2016.

[6] Bad Pyrmont - Souvenirblatt , website in the portal kunstfreund.eu , accessed on May 17, 2016.