Peter von Bemmel
Peter von Bemmel (born August 18, 1685 in Nuremberg , † October 22, 1753 in Regensburg ) was a German landscape painter .
Life
He was born as the son of the landscape painter Willem Gerritsz van Bemmel , who immigrated from Utrecht .
In painting he followed the style of his father, who died in 1708, together with his older brother Johann Georg until around 1715 . According to “Biography of all Bemmel” (1799), it was not originally planned to train him as a landscape painter as well. In 1715 he painted a landscape with a distant city, several churches and an ancient ruin , a motif borrowed from his father. In 1716 he published a series of graphics in Regensburg. Presumably he had joined the Regensburg landscape painter Christoph Ludwig Agricola (1665–1719) there.
Bemmel was often on the road and worked for the royal courts of Ansbach , Bamberg and Würzburg . His family lived on Bonersberg (Paniersplatz) in Nuremberg, where his brother Johann Georg ran his father's workshop until his death in 1723.
Bemmel founded the younger Nuremberg landscape painting school. It differs from his father's older school in that it gives up a uniform depth of space and emphasizes individual motifs. The scenes, enriched with small figures, also have a Christian symbolic character through crossroads , chapels in the forest, hermit huts, etc. These landscapes, which are based on older models - as with Lucas van Valckenborch - can also take on a dark character in color. Popular motifs are also crossing birches, a tree stump lying on the ground and church towers with pointed pyramid roofs. The technical quality of his works varies greatly. B. the canvases are not always properly primed. Nevertheless they are mostly signed.
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He became known as the "storm jumble". He developed his talent in these mostly small-format weather landscapes. Typical are tree trunks that have just been struck by lightning and break apart on the ground and are still glowing. Heavy rain surprises z. B. Hikers on lonely paths. Winter landscapes are also known from him.
His sons Christoph and Johann Christoph and his grandchildren follow him partly, partly the older school after Willem van Bemmel, which his brother Johann Georg and his descendants continue. His brother-in-law Lindner should also be mentioned as a student. The director of the Nuremberg Drawing School , Johann Daniel Preissler , published “Instructions for Landscape Painting” , which offer a theoretical definition of the range of variations of individual motifs in Bemmel's oeuvre .
literature
- Wolf Eiermann: Willem van Bemmel - monograph with a critical catalog raisonné. - Imhof, Petersberg, 2007. ISBN 978-3-86568-145-4
- Georg Christoph III von Bemmel, biography of all Bemmel, in: Meusels "Miscellaneen artistic content", Nuremberg 1799
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bemmel, Peter von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 18, 1685 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nuremberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 22, 1753 |
| Place of death | regensburg |