Hermann Schnee

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At the brook below the castle
Arrival of Kaiser Wilhelm I for the red hunt in the Grunewald

Hermann Schnee (born September 5, 1840 in Treuenbrietzen , † February 24, 1926 in Berlin ) was a German landscape painter and graphic artist .

Life

Schnee was born as the son of District Court Councilor Rudolph Hermann Schnee (1805–1864) in Treuenbrietzen, Breite Straße 2. His mother, Louise Sello (1812–1845), was a sister of the court gardeners Hermann and Emil Sello and a sister-in-law of the court gardener Eduard II. Nietner and the architect Ludwig Persius .

As a schoolboy (around 1856), Schnee made a drawing of the tomb of Heinrich von Kleist for Theodor Storm , which is located on the Kleiner Wannsee . He was a student of Oswald Achenbach and Hans Fredrik Gude in Düsseldorf . In 1863 he went to Karlsruhe and after 1867 he opened a "ladies' studio" in Berlin. At the Great Berlin Art Exhibition , an annual art salon, he was represented with six paintings in 1895. Today his paintings can be found in the Chemnitz City Art Collections and in the Grunewald Hunting Lodge . Schnee lived and worked as a painter in Berlin and the Harz Mountains . In 1893 he was appointed royal professor by Kaiser Wilhelm II .

He was married to Charlotte Friederike Paulina (nee Maillard, * July 5, 1846, † January 15, 1920). His grave, that of his wife and father are in the Bornstedter Friedhof of the Hermann Selloschen Family Foundation.

literature

  • Snow, Hermann . In: Lionel von Donop (ed.): Catalog of hand drawings, watercolors and oil studies in the Königl. National Gallery . ES Mittler, Berlin 1902, p. 496 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Snow, 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. 189 .
  • Peter Goldammer: My naughty adoptive nephew. The painter Hermann Schnee in Theodor Storm's life. Publications by the Theodor Storm Literature Museum (Storm Museum), Heilbad Heiligenstadt 1996.
  • Sybille Eggert: “Do you know anything about Hermann Schnee?” New materials on the relationship between Theodor Storm and the landscape painter Hermann Schnee. Publications by the Theodor Storm Literature Museum (Storm Museum), Heilbad Heiligenstadt 2007.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans Joachim Kreutzer: Kleist yearbook 1990 . Springer-Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-476-03361-1 , pp. 161–163 ( books.google.de - reading sample).
  2. ^ Hermann Alexander Müller, Hans Wolfgang Singer: Snow, Hermann . In: General Artist Lexicon . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1921, p. 214 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Snow, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Treuenbrietzen
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1926
Place of death Berlin