Hermann Ottomar Herzog
Hermann Ottomar Herzog (born November 15, 1832 in Bremen , † February 6, 1932 in Philadelphia ) was a German landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Hermann Ottomar Herzog attended the Academy in Düsseldorf from 1849 , where he trained from 1851 to 1854 under Johann Wilhelm Schirmer and Rudolf Wiegmann . He also took private lessons from Andreas Achenbach and Hans Fredrik Gude . From 1854 to 1871 he belonged to the artists' association Malkasten . After completing his studies, Herzog went on study trips to Norway , Switzerland , Italy and the Pyrenees. From all these countries and regions, mostly from Norway, he brought back numerous mountain landscapes with masterful drawing and appealing coloring, if not exactly of a poetic conception. The best include: The wrestling festival in Unspunnen in Switzerland (1862), also Norwegian Fjord , The Wetterhorn , Alpenglow , Das Lauterbrunnenthal , Norwegian waterfall . In the 1860s he traveled to North America and borrowed some motifs from the Yosemite Valley in California . He lived in Philadelphia until his death . His American work is also attributed to the Hudson River School .
Herzog, who is almost a hundred years old, left over 1,000 paintings. His son Lewis Edward Herzog , born in Philadelphia in 1868, also became a painter.
literature
- Duke, Hermann . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 16 : Hansen – Heubach . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1923, p. 570 .
- Peter Hastings Falk: Who was Who in American Art . Sound View, Madison 1985, ISBN 0-932087-00-0 , p. 279.
- Duke, Hermann . In: Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf , Galerie Paffrath (ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorfer Malerschule 1819–1918 . Volume 2: Haach – Murtfeldt , F. Bruckmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7654-3010-2 , p. 97 f.
Web links
- Hermann Herzog , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
- Herman Herzog ( 1832-1932 ), Pictures , posted AS Amberson on February 6, 2008, on American Gallery, accessed March 28, 2016
- Thomas Nygard Gallery: Hermann Ottomar Herzog (English)
- Article Herzog, Hermann Ottomar. on the website www.hlchalfant.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bremen civil register, p. 592, no. 1200/1832
- ^ Rudolf Theilmann : The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker . In: Wend von Kalnein : The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, p. 145
- ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819-1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 432
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Herzog, Hermann Ottomar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Herzog, Herman Ottmar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 15, 1832 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 6, 1932 |
| Place of death | Philadelphia |