Hermann Eduard Hartmann

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Hermann Eduard Hartmann (* July 20 . Jul / 1. August  1817 greg. In Tartu , Livonia , † December 26, 1880 jul. / 7. January  1881 greg. ) Was a Baltic German painter and graphic artist.

Life

Hermann Eduard Hartmann was born in the Livonian university town of Tartu (German Dorpat ), where he attended high school from 1827 to 1835. Hartmann first studied in Tartu with the Baltic German painter August Matthias Hagen (1794–1878). From 1836 to 1840 he went to Düsseldorf and Munich for artistic training .

Returning to his Baltic homeland, Hartmann was a drawing teacher at the Livonian high school in Birkenruh near Cēsis ( Wenden ) from 1841 to 1845 . In 1845 he settled in Tartu. In the same year the Art Academy in the Russian capital Saint Petersburg awarded him the title of freelance artist. He also worked in various municipal offices.

From 1860 Hartmann was a long-time curator of the collections of the Estonian Scholarly Society ( Estonian Õpetatud Eesti Selts ).

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Hermann Eduard Hartmann was best known as a precise portrait and landscape painter . His woodcuts with city and landscape views as well as Tartu student life, which have appeared in numerous Estonian and Livonian newspapers and calendars, are also famous .

Hartmann was also the publisher of the catalog Das Vaterländisches Museum zu Dorpat or the collections of the learned Estonian society and the Central Museum of Patriotic Antiquities of the Imperial University of Dorpat in 1871 , to which he contributed his own illustrations.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eesti elulood. Eesti entsüklopeediakirjastus, Tallinn 2000, ISBN 9985-70-064-3 , p. 81 (= Eesti entsüklopeedia 14)
personal data
SURNAME Hartmann, Hermann Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baltic German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Tartu , Livonia
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 1881
Place of death Tartu , Livonia