Hermann Gemmel

View of a city on the river (1853)

Hermann Gemmel (born November 28, 1813 in Barten , East Prussia ; † March 22, 1868 in Königsberg , East Prussia; full name: Hermann Johann Ernst Gemmel ) was a German architect , painter and university professor .

Life

Hermann Gemmel attended school in Königsberg and then completed an apprenticeship as a surveyor . At the age of 23 he went to the Berlin Building Academy as a student . In addition to artistic drawing lessons from the painter Hans Hertig , he studied with Karl Eduard Biermann , Franz Krüger and Friedrich Wilhelm Schirmer .

In 1845 Gemmel made his debut at an exhibition at the Berlin Art Academy with his painting Dyeing at Schafgraben . In addition, he was asked to submit drafts for the Berlin Cathedral , which were ultimately not considered. In 1845 he returned to his homeland and settled in Königsberg.

Gemmel traveled to Italy in 1850 and again from spring 1854 to autumn 1855, staying for a few weeks in Rome and Venice . In the lagoon city he was involved in the design of a chapel for Cardinal Zeno . After his return home, Gemmel was entrusted in the same year with a teaching position for architecture, art history and perspective at the Königsberg Art Academy and appointed full professor .

Hermann Gemmel died on March 22, 1868 in Königsberg at the age of 54.

In all of his artistic work, Gemmel thematized the architecture of Italy and East Prussia. His pictures are still worth seeing today, just because of the architecture shown.

Works (selection)

View of Magdeburg Cathedral (1844, oil on canvas)

painting

View of the Magdeburg Cathedral (1844)
Dyeing works at the Schafgraben (around 1845)
View of a city on the river (1853)
Family room in a medieval castle
Baptistery in San Marco in Venice
Chapel of Cardinal Zeno
The monastery stairs (1867) (private property)

architecture

Some buildings on Gut Beynuhnen in Lithuania Minor
Unexecuted drafts for the Berlin Cathedral

Exhibitions

1849: Opening exhibition at the Kunsthalle Bremen
1854: Kunsthalle Bremen

literature

Rudolf Bergau: Gemmel, Hermann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1878, p. 556 f.
Hermann Gemmel . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 7, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 74.

Individual evidence

↑ The Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) gives the year of birth 1814 without a precise date.
↑ List of the paintings and plastic works etc. exhibited at the opening of the New Art Gallery in Bremen on May 1, 1849, without images ( Memento of the original from July 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Exhibition catalog 1849, accessed on May 30, 2010 @1@ 2
^ Directory of the exhibition catalogs of the Kunsthalle Bremen / 1829-2004. Kunstverein in Bremen, archived from the original on July 19, 2011 ; accessed on March 17, 2014 .

personal data
SURNAME	Gemmel, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gemmel, Hermann Johann Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter, architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	November 28, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH	Barten , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH	March 22, 1868
Place of death	Koenigsberg

[1] The Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) gives the year of birth 1814 without a precise date.

[2] List of the paintings and plastic works etc. exhibited at the opening of the New Art Gallery in Bremen on May 1, 1849, without images ( Memento of the original from July 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Exhibition catalog 1849, accessed on May 30, 2010 @1@ 2

[3] Directory of the exhibition catalogs of the Kunsthalle Bremen / 1829-2004. Kunstverein in Bremen, archived from the original on July 19, 2011 ; accessed on March 17, 2014 .