Hermann Kauffmann
Hermann Kauffmann (the elder) also Herrmann Kauffmann , (born November 7, 1808 in Hamburg ; † May 24, 1889 ibid) was a German painter and lithographer who is considered a major representative of the Hamburg School .
Life
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Hermann Kauffmann was the son of a merchant and a silk merchant's daughter. With his first artistic teacher, the Hamburg painter Gerdt Hardorff , he not only learned how to draw from plaster models, as was common at the time, but also did nude studies. From 1827 to 1833 he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . His teacher Peter Hess was considered a leading representative of the Munich naturalists . Kauffmann was initially connected to the Hamburg artists' colony there, but soon left it and turned to studying nature. In 1833 he went back to Hamburg. The Bavarian landscape remained formative for his pictures and drawings for a long time.
Further landscape studies were made while traveling to northern and southern Germany, Norway and in and around Hamburg. They are classified partly as pure landscapes, partly as landscapes with genre , partly as genre. They are characterized by the naturalness of conception and presentation. He likes to depict winter landscapes, such as the mail car in a snow storm , toboggan run on the Elbe , fishing scene on the ice . Hermann Kauffmann was a member of the Hamburg Artists' Association from 1832 .
Works by him are in the Hamburger Kunsthalle and in museums in Darmstadt, Hanover and Leipzig. A painting of the great Hamburg fire hangs in the Hamburg city hall . Hermann Kauffmann was portrayed by Hermann Steinfurth in 1879 . In the same year Hermann Steinfurth donated it to the Hamburger Kunsthalle.
In 1914 Hermann-Kauffmann-Strasse in Hamburg-Barmbek-Nord was named after him. In the Ohlsdorf cemetery , in the area of the Althamburg Memorial Cemetery , near the main entrance of the cemetery, the graphic artist and painter, among others, is reminded of Hermann Kauffmann, whose name is on the right painter's grave plate, on the double collective grave.
His son Hugo Kauffmann was also a painter, as was his grandson Hermann Kauffmann .
Works
Lithographs
- 1845: Am Soolbrunnen , (lithograph)
- 1851: March
Oil painting
- 1887: The return of the fishermen , (Probstei)
- Hermann Kaufmann and Georg Haeselich, oil painting and owned by the Hamburger Kunsthalle
Exhibitions (selection)
- 2019: Hamburg School - The 19th Century Rediscovered (April 12 to July 14), Hamburger Kunsthalle
literature
- Hermann Kauffmann . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 9, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 627.
- Emil Benezé : Kauffmann, Hermann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 51, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, pp. 73-75.
- Brigitte Lohkamp: Kauffmann, Hermann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 343 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Bärbel Hedinger : Hermann Kauffmann 1808-1889 - Pictures from Northern Germany. Exhibition catalog, Altonaer Museum, North German State Museum, Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3-927637-02-5
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Alfred Lichtwark : Herrmann Kauffmann and the art in Hamburg. , Hamburg 1893, p. 68 Excerpt from the biography Herrmann Kauffmann - digitized
- ↑ Personalities , accessed January 10, 2014
- ↑ Rita Bake : A Memory of the City. Streets, squares, bridges named after women and men , Volume 3, as of December 2017, p. 684 ( PDF file )
- ^ March , in Düsseldorfer Künstler-Album , Arnz & Comp. , 1st year, 1851
- ↑ Figure , accessed on October 28, 2013
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kauffmann, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and lithographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 7, 1808 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 24, 1889 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |