Hermann Schmiechen

Hermann Schmiechen (born July 22, 1855 in Neumarkt , † 1925 in Berlin ) was a German painter and portraitist .

Life

Born in Neumarkt in Silesia , Hermann Schmiechen went to Breslau in 1872 to the Royal Academy of Arts and Crafts and became a student of Albrecht Bräuer (1830–1897). A year later, in 1873, he followed the call of the Düsseldorf School of Painting and became a student of Karl Müller and Eduard von Gebhardt and was a member of the artists' association Malkasten . After studying at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , a study visit to Paris at the Académie Julian followed in 1876 . Back in Düsseldorf, Schmiechen became a sought-after portrait painter and lived in the house of the widow Sophie Hasenclever at 24 Goltsteinstrasse .

Princess Mary Adelaide , Duchess of Teck, 1882

In 1883, at almost the same time as Karl Rudolf Sohn , Schmiechen was appointed to Kensington Palace in London at the invitation of Queen Victoria , where he made portraits of the English aristocracy. The painter August Becker had recommended his artist colleagues at court. In the following years from 1884 to 1895 exhibitions at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam , the Royal Academy of Arts London , Liverpool and Manchester followed .

In April 1883 Hermann Schmiechen married Antonia (Antonie) Gebhard (* 1862), daughter of a factory owner and partner in the silk weaving mill Gebhard & Co. from Elberfeld , in Düsseldorf . The marriage later ended in divorce. In London, Schmiechen painted Helena Petrovna Blavatsky in the summer of 1884 and, under her guidance, the ascended masters of wisdom Morya (Master M, El Morya Er) and Koot Hoomi (Master KH, Kuthumi Lal Singh). Helena Blavatsky herself, Patience Sinnett (1844-1908), the wife of Alfred Percy Sinnett , Laura Holloway-Langford (1843-1930), Mohini Mohun Chatterji (1858-1936) and other members of the Anglo-Indian Theosophical Society had often met gathered in his London studio. In 1885 in the house of Gustav Gebhard in Elberfeld, the seat of the Theosophical Society Germania , another portrait of Helena Blavatsky was created, as was Mary Gebhard , a born L'Estrange (1832-1892). Gustav Gebhard had invited Blavatsky to Elberfeld to relax and she brought a number of English and Indian theosophists with her.

Travels took him to Greece and France, where he also did some landscape paintings . Hermann Schmiechen had been active in Berlin since 1901, lived at Kantstrasse 152 in Charlottenburg.After his death, the occultist , spiritualist , theosophist and esoteric writer Leopold Engel sold images of Christ, the rights of which the late painter Hermann Schmiechen had given him in 1924 to reproduce.

Works (selection)

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  Master Morya, 1884

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  Master Koot Hoomi, 1884

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  Helena Blavatsky, 1884

• Opera singer Lillian Nordica , 1878
• Portrait of the daughter of Nicolaus Otto , 1879
• Portrait of a Lady, around 1880
• Young patrician, 1881
• Royal Highness Princess Mary Adelaide , Duchess of Teck , 1882
• Friederike von Hannover and Cumberland , Baroness von Pawel-Rammingen, 1884
• Worrying Signs, 1886
• Margaret McEwan, The Honorable Mrs. Ronald Henry Fulke Greville, 1889
• John Osborne Sargent (1811-1891), 1889
• Loving couple at the window, 1895
• Lady with a basket of roses, 1895, German National Art Exhibition Düsseldorf , 1902
• Salome (Flora), around 1900
• Eleonore Princess of Schönburg-Waldenburg, Princess of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg , 1908
• Ernst von Leyden , 1909
• Mary Grant Carmichael
• Countess of Cottenham
• Margaret (Anderson) (1863–1942), The Honorable Mrs. Ronald, Later Dame Margaret
• Julia Elizabeth Ripley (1829–1867), wife of Richard H. Howard
• Reverend Richard Howard (1813-1890)

literature

• Schmiechen, Hermann . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 171 .
• CG Röder (Ed.): The intellectual Germany at the end of the XIX century. The visual artists. Volume 1, Leipzig 1898, p. 613.
• Friedrich Jansa: German visual artist. Leipzig, 1912, p. 528 ff.
• J. Johnson, A. Greutzner: The Dictionary of British Artists 1880-1940. Woodbridge / Suffolk 1976, ISBN 978-0-902028-36-4 , p. 449.
• Ursula Keller, Natalja Sharandak: Madame Blavatsky: A biography. Insel Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-458-17572-8 , p. 188, p. 223 f.

Web links

Commons : Hermann Schmiechen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• RKD: Hermann Schmiechen
• Hermann Schmiechen , at artuk.org, accessed on May 3, 2016
• Hermann Schmiechen , on Artnet

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hermann Schmiechen , on Genealogy von Heidermanns, accessed on May 3, 2016
2. ↑ Konrad Müller-Kaboth: Albrecht Brauer. In: Kunst und Künstler: illustrated monthly for fine arts and applied arts. Issue 5., 1907, p. 393 ff. ( Uni-heidelberg.de )
3. ↑ Inventory list Malkasten-Archiv: Hermann Schmiechen (* 1855) .
4. ^ Schmiechen, Maler, Goltsteinstrasse 24 , in the address book of the Lord Mayor's Office in Düsseldorf for 1882.
5. ↑ "Sound and Light" (PDF), catalog for the exhibition of the Prince Albert Society and the Coburg University of Applied Sciences "Prince Albert - A Wettiner in Great Britain", Coburg, 2003, pp. 15-16.
6. ^ Schmiechen, Hermann, catalog 326, child portrait , on RKD - Dutch Institute for Art History
7. ^ B. Koerner, E. Strutz: Bergisches Geschlechtbuch, 3 (DGB 83), Görlitz 1935, p. 26, 581 ( heidermanns.net , Georg Julius Eduard Gebhard (1836–1923), manufacturer, partner in the company "Gebhard & Co . ").
8. ↑ Peter Mt. Shasta: Adventures of a Western Mystic. Volume 2, In the service of the masters, Norderstedt, Books on Demand, 2015, ISBN 978-3-7392-0592-2 , pp. 292–293.
9. ^ Laura C. Holloway: The Mahatmas and Their Instruments Part II. Madame Blavatsky and the Masters. Mahatma Portraits and Their Painter. In: The Word. New York, July 1912, pp. 200–206 (English, blavatskyarchives.com )
10. ^ Rolf Speckner: Helena Blavatski in Germany 1884-1887.
11. ^ Schmiechen, Hermann, painter, Charlottenburg, Kantstr. 152 III. , in address book for Berlin and its suburbs: using official sources. Berlin, 1902.
12. ^ Schmiechen, Hermann, portrait and history painting., Charlottenburg, Kantstr. 152 III. , in Berlin address book for 1923; using official sources. Berlin, 1923, (Note: after 1923 there is no longer an entry for Hermann Schmiechen in the Berlin address book.)
13. ^ National Museums in Berlin : Portrait of a Lady, »Irmgard« , National Gallery (Berlin)
14. ^ Hermann Schmiechen: Illustration of the Princess Frederica of Hanover, Baroness von Pawel-Rammingen (1848–1926), in the collection of Queen Victoria , on the Royal Collection Trust
15. ↑ Signs of concern, catalog No. 327, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, 1886 , on RKD
16. ^ Lawyer, author, publisher John Osborne Sargent, by Hermann Schmiechen, 1889 , on harvardartmuseums.org.
17. ^ Hermann Schmiechen, illustration: Turtling lovers at the window, 1895 , on auction house Michael Zeller
18. ↑ BeyArs.com: Lady with a basket of roses
19. ↑ Selling Antiques: Salome , Price £ 9,800 / € 11,739 ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.