Ludwig Hummel (painter)

Ludwig Hummel also Luigi Hummel (born May 11, 1770 in Naples , † August 28, 1840 in Kassel ) was a German painter , draftsman and engraver . He belonged to the painters of the Nazarenes .

Life

Hummel was born the son of an officer. In Naples he was raised as a foster son by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein and became his pupil; as a draftsman he worked on his publication of the antique vases by William Hamilton . For Tischbein's unfinished vase work and for his unfinished cycle Homer drawn from antiquities , Hummel and Tischbein designed thousands of drawings based on antiquities and made numerous copper engravings. In 1794 he went on a hike from Rome to Naples with Asmus Jacob Carstens . In 1799 Hummel came to Kassel with Tischbein. In Kassel he became the teacher of the Elector Princess and later Electress Auguste . With the chalk drawing Perseus and Andromeda , Hummel and Johann Martin von Rohden won Goethe's Weimar Prize Tasks in 1802 . In 1807 he married the painter Marianne von Rohden , the sister of the painter Johann Martin von Rhoden, who worked in Rome. In 1805 he exhibited a 90-foot-long and 3-foot-high grisaille frieze with depictions of the deeds and triumphs of Bacchus in Weimar .

From 1808 to 1813, Hummel lived with his wife Marianne in Paris , on behalf of Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig von Oldenburg in the Louvre v. a. after Raphael to copy. It emerged u. a. the copies of the The Holy Family and the Saint Cecilia . During their time in Paris, the painter couple lived with their friend, Kassel sculptor Werner Henschel . Their daughter Susanna, also called Susette , was born on March 12, 1811 . She became a painter and singer and married the composer Moritz Hauptmann .

Ludwig Hummel returned to Kassel in 1813 and worked mainly for the court and as a portrait painter. In 1815 he became a member of the opposition Schönfeld Circle around Electress Auguste, whose political, liberal tendency was directed against her husband, Elector Wilhelm II of Hesse-Kassel , who was living separately . Hummel was initially a professor and from 1825 director of the painter and sculptor class at the art academy in Kassel. In 1835 he was a co-founder of the Kunstverein für Kurhessen in Kassel.

Works in museums (selection)

• Neue Galerie Kassel : Portrait of a Neapolitan , around 1800; Self-portrait , around 1807; Portrait of Marianne Hummel , b. von Rohden, around 1807
• Weilburg Castle Museum : Landgrave Philipp the Magnanimous

literature

• Ernst Hauptmann: Hummel, Ludwig . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 18 : Hubatsch – Ingouf . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1925, p. 130-131 .
• Paul Schmaling: Artist Lexicon Hessen-Kassel 1777–2000 , Kassel 2001, p.
• Hummel, Ludwig . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 75, de Gruyter, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-023180-9 , p. 487.