Hermann Grimm (painter)

Christian Hermann Grimm (born February 28, 1860 in Hamburg ; † 1931 there ) was a German genre painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

The young art expert , 1894

Grimm studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1880 to 1894 , having first learned wood carving and attended the Hamburg School of Applied Arts . Hugo Crola , Heinrich Lauenstein , Adolf Schill , Eduard von Gebhardt , Julius Roeting and above all Wilhelm Sohn and Peter Janssen the Elder , whose master classes he attended from 1889 and 1893, were his teachers at the Düsseldorf Academy . Grimm sent in 1893, 1894, 1899, 1905 and 1910 the Great Berlin Art Exhibition , in 1898 and 1904 the Munich Glass Palace and in 1902 and 1907 the Great Art Exhibition in Düsseldorf . He was a member of the artists' association Malkasten and the Free Association of Düsseldorf Artists . Part-time he worked as a teacher of perspective and color technology and as an assistant in the copper engraving cabinet at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. He also worked as a painting restorer. These activities restricted his free artistic work. As a genre painter, he aimed for the pictorial effect of Dutch minor masters of the 17th century. Grimm died in Hamburg- Volksdorf in 1931 .

Friedrich Schaarschmidt : On the history of Düsseldorf art, especially in the XIX. Century . Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, Düsseldorf 1902, p. 282.
Grimm, Hermann . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 45 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

personal data
SURNAME	Grimm, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Grimm, Christian Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German genre painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH	February 28, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH	1931
Place of death	Hamburg