Hermann Krüger (painter)

Hermann August Krüger (born June 10, 1834 in Cottbus , Brandenburg province , † May 27, 1908 in Baden-Baden ) was a German landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Park near Rome , 1899 (cypress pond of Villa Falconieri in Frascati)

As a private student of Adalbert Waagen in Munich , of Max Schmidt in Berlin and of Albert Flamm in Düsseldorf , Krüger, the son of a Cottbus wholesale merchant, trained in landscape painting. He accompanied one of the leading landscape painters of his time, Oswald Achenbach , on several trips to Italy . Krüger, who, like his friend and role model Achenbach, earned a reputation as an Italian painter , lived after his studies in Düsseldorf, where he belonged to the artists' association Malkasten . In his legacy, Krüger bequeathed the city of Düsseldorf, among other things, the painting “The old coal gate in Düsseldorf” by Andreas Achenbach .

literature

Kruger, August Hermann . In: Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon . Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 312.
Krüger, Hermann August . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume I, Dresden 1895, p. 776.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ On the etching "From Hadrian's Villa" . In: Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst , Volume 31, p. 96 ( digitized version )
↑ Inventory list , website on the malkasten.org portal , accessed on June 26, 2017
^ Legacy Herrmann Krüger. in report on the status and the administration of community affairs in the city of Düsseldorf for the period from April 1, 1908 to March 31, 1909 , p. 129 ub.uni-duesseldorf.de

personal data
SURNAME	Kruger, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Krüger, Hermann August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH	June 10, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cottbus , Province of Brandenburg
DATE OF DEATH	May 27, 1908
Place of death	Baden-Baden

[1] On the etching "From Hadrian's Villa" . In: Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst , Volume 31, p. 96 ( digitized version )

[2] Inventory list , website on the malkasten.org portal , accessed on June 26, 2017

[3] Legacy Herrmann Krüger. in report on the status and the administration of community affairs in the city of Düsseldorf for the period from April 1, 1908 to March 31, 1909 , p. 129 ub.uni-duesseldorf.de