Karl von Hampeln

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Karl von Hampeln , also Carl or Charles ( Russian Карл Карлович Гампельн , * 1794 in Moscow or, according to some sources, 1808 in Saint Petersburg , † after 1880 in Vienna ) was an Austrian watercolor and miniature painter, graphic artist, portraitist who worked in Russia and Vienna , Engraver and lithographer.

Life

Von Hampeln was born as a deaf and dumb child into an Austrian family based in Russia. Thanks to the scholarship donated by Tsarina Maria Fjodorovna , he first went to an institution for the deaf and dumb in Vienna, then studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna . During the Congress of Vienna in 1815 he was presented to Tsar Alexander I , who financed his further stay in Vienna.

In 1816 he received a second class court prize as a "copper scraper". In 1817 he returned to Russia. After 1825 he became a drawing teacher at the St. Petersburg School for the Deaf and Mute. He became known as a portraitist in the Russian capital. After a temporary stay in London, he spent the last years of his life in Vienna.

Works (selection)

  • Holy Family or Maria with the child and Johannes , copper engraving after Jan van den Hoecke Inscribed with "Charles de Hampeln sourd-muet" (Landscape with ancient ruins. Mary sitting with the two holy boys, Johannes with lamb. Joseph standing on the right has the gaze directed at the group in front, was part of the collection of Count Franz von Bandinelli)
  • Lithography collection : Collection de dessins lithographies par Charles de Hampeln, sourd muet de l'académie des beaux-arts
    • SM l'empereur Alexandre Ier
    • SAI le grand duc Constantin
    • SAI le grand duc Nicolas
    • SAI le grand duc Michel
    • Le grand duc héréditaire Alexandre Micolaowtsch
    • Quarante-quatre planches représentant les différens régimens de cavalerie russe (44 panels depicting the various regiments of the Russian cavalry)

literature

Web links

Commons : Karl Hampeln  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b List of farm prices . In: Report on the academic years 1876/77 to 1891/92 - submitted on the occasion of the celebration of the academy's bicentenary . KK Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna 1892, p. 114 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  2. ^ Paul Pfisterer: Signaturenlexikon / Dictionary of Signatures . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-082446-9 , pp. 836 ( books.google.de - signature "H 175", not in the reading sample).
  3. ^ Alfred von Wurzbach: Hoecke, Jan van den Hoecke . In: Dutch Artist Lexicon: with more than 3000 monograms . Halm and Goldmann, Vienna 1906, p. 693 , right column: No. 12 engraved after him ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  4. Theodor von Frimmel, Getty Research Institute: Lexicon of the Vienna Painting Collections . G. Müller, Munich 1913, p. 82-83 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  5. ^ Bibliography de la France . Pillet Ainé, Paris 1827, p. 768 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).