Johann Joachim Faber

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A gorge near Sorrento, 1823, Hamburger Kunsthalle

Johann Joachim Faber (born April 12, 1778 in Hamburg ; † August 2, 1846 there ) was a German landscape painter and etcher.

Life

For the Hamburg Katharinenkirche he created the altarpiece Let the children come to me . He visited Italy with Joseph Anton Koch and Johann Christian Reinhart . Among his students was Ludwig Mecklenburg . His works can be found in the collections of the Hamburger Kunsthalle , the Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte and the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin .

Exhibitions (selection)

literature

  • Robert Edmund Graves: Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A – K). I (3rd ed.). George Bell & Sons, London.

Web links

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