Leopold Hartmann (painter)

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Leopold Hartmann , photo by Jens Petersen, 1870s

Friedrich Leopold Hermann Hartmann (born October 8, 1839 in Berlin , † May 9, 1897 in Frederiksberg near Copenhagen ) was a Danish portrait painter and photographer .

Life

Heinrich Tönnies , portrait painting, 1868

Hartmann came to Copenhagen as the child of music director Carl Vilhelm Hartmann and his wife Anna Charlotte Juliane, née Kunesch. He received artistic training at Gustav Friedrich von Hetsch's drawing school and at the Royal Danish Academy of Art . The Copenhagen Academy honored him with a small silver medal in 1857 for a model drawing. In the same year he began to take part in exhibitions. In 1858/1859 he took private lessons with the history and portrait painter Karl Ferdinand Sohn in Düsseldorf . In 1864 he went to the German-Danish War . In Danish military service, he climbed the rank of lieutenant . He established himself as a photographer around 1872 after he had acquired the necessary knowledge from the photographer Heinrich Tönnies , whom he also painted. On November 25, 1874, in Copenhagen, he married Emmy Frederikke Cathrineügel (1853-1917), the daughter of the captain Peter Danielügel and his wife Johanne Mary Anna (Mariane), née Dollmann. The couple, who toured Italy in 1874/1875 and 1878, had a son, Edmund Daniel (1875–1956). Hartmann's student was Julie Laurberg . He handed over his photo studio to Marie Budtz & Co.

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Web links

Commons : Leopold Hartmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, education 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. 431