Salomon Hirschfelder

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Peasant girl reading a letter

Salomon Hirschfelder (born May 16, 1831 in Dettensee , † May 10, 1903 in Munich ) was a German painter .

Life

Salomon Hirschfelder was a son of the merchant Meier Hirschfelder and his wife Sarah. From 1853 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and developed into a genre painter . The state of Baden-Württemberg owns several paintings by Hirschfeld. The paintings The Bread Visitation from 1876 and The Maid's Office from 1896 can be seen in the town museum "Hoher Giebel" in Horb . Both pictures represent the second version of a lost painting. Images of the first versions in woodcuts are also available in Horb. There is also a portrait of a young lady in a red dress in Horb from around 1900 as well as memories of the Dettensee homeland and her parents' house from 1873. Another work by Hirschfelder is entitled Homecoming from the Sleigh Ride and dates from the year 1877. Hirschfelder supplied the Breslauer Volkskalender with numerous drawings.

In addition to painting, Hirschfelder also dealt with photography and music and worked as an inventor.

literature

  • Bernd Ballmann: Salomon Hirschfelder, 1831–1903, a genre painter from Dettensee. In: Schwäbische Heimat 54, 2003, issue 2, p. 139.
  • Herbert Zander: Salomon Hirschfelder, life and work of an all-rounder from Hohenzollern. In: Hohenzollerische Heimat 53, 2003, No. 4, pp. 59–64 and 2004, No. 1, pp. 1–5.

Web links

Commons : Salomon Hirschfelder  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://matrikel.adbk.de/05older/mb_1841-1884/jahr_1853/matrikel-01077
  2. ↑ http://www.arcadja.com/auctions/it/hirschfelder_salomon/artista/88558/
personal data
SURNAME Hirschfelder, Salomon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Dettensee
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1903
Place of death Munich