Willy Hamacher

Georg Ludwig Meyn : Portrait of the painter Willy Hamacher

Ocean wide

Willy Hamacher (born July 10, 1865 in Breslau ; † July 9, 1909 in Bad Reinerz ) was a German landscape and marine painter .

Life

Hamacher was a son of the painter Theodor Hamacher and a brother of the painter Alfred Hamacher . He first learned landscape painting at the Silesian Museum of Fine Arts in Breslau from Carl Coven Schirm , a student of Hans Gude . In 1888/89 he continued his studies at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , where Eugen Dücker was his teacher. In 1889 he was a member of the Malkasten Artists' Association in Düsseldorf . Finally, he perfected himself from 1890-94 at the Berlin Academy of the Arts as a master student under Hans Gude himself. In 1893 he opened his own studio at Königin-Augusta-Strasse 51 (today Reichpietschufer ) in Berlin-Tiergarten. In 1895 he moved to Tauentzienstrasse 13, where he also ran a “painting school for men and women”. His last place of residence since 1904 was Spichernstrasse 7 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf.

Study trips took him to Rügen, Sweden, Paris, England and above all to Italy. After initially painting Nordic coastal landscapes, he later specialized in Italian shores, especially on the Riviera . His pictures were very much appreciated in his time and were also bought by museums. Since 1888 he exhibited in the Munich Glass Palace and since 1889 at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition . In 1896 he received a small gold medal at the International Art Exhibition in Berlin .

literature

Hamacher, Willy . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 540 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
Helmut Börsch-Supan, Hans Paffrath (Hrsg.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting. Volume 2: Haach – Murtfeldt. Bruckmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7654-3010-2 .
Berlin address books.

Web links

Commons : Willy Hamacher - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Works by Willy Hamacher on museum-digital.de

Individual evidence

↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence 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.

personal data
SURNAME	Hamacher, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German landscape and marine painter
DATE OF BIRTH	July 10, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH	July 9, 1909
Place of death	Bad Reinerz

[1] Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence 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.