Hermann Carl Hempel
Illustration — Hermann Carl Hempel, painting by Wilhelm Schneider-Didam, 1907 Hermann Carl Hempel (13 April 1848 – 26 September 1921) was a German landscape painter and illustrator of the Düsseldorf school of painting and director of the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf.
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Hermann Carl Hempel
Wilhelm Schneider-Didam · Rhein und Düssel (No. 40) vom 4. Oktober 1908 ULB · Public domain
- Born
- 1848 · Stralsund.
- Died
- 1921 · Düsseldorf.
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- painter · illustrator
- Languages
- German
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Life
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Born in Stralsund, Hempel studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. There Andreas Müller was his teacher. He also took lessons with the landscape painter Eugen Dücker. Hempel was a member of the artists' associations Malkasten, Laetitia and Orient. On 13 February 1875, he starred on the Malkasten stage in the farce Das Ständchen. In 1877, he married Adele, the daughter of the Düsseldorf landscape painter Friedrich Heunert. The couple had two children, Friedrich, who became a concert organist, and Klara. From 1883 to 1920 Hempel was director and managing director of the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf. In 1900 and 1902 Hempel stayed in Katwijk. Hempel died in Düsseldorf at the age of 73.
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Hermann Carl Hempel (13 April 1848 – 26 September 1921) was a museum director and painter. The birth of Hermann Carl Hempel is recorded on 13 April 1848 in Stralsund, and the death on 26 September 1921 in Düsseldorf. Düsseldorf is recorded as a place of activity by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
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• Illustration — Bad Pyrmont – Souvenirblatt, 1881, wood engraving by Richard Brend'amour after an original by Hermann Carl Hempel • Templates for Bad Pyrmont – Souvenirblatt, coloured wood engravings by Richard Brend'amour, 1881 • Wassermühle • Teilansicht von Moselkern • Aprilstimmung • Eifellandschaft mit Gehöft • Herbstliche Waldstimmung mit Weitblick • Impressionistische Landschaft
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- 1.Rudolf Theilmann: Die Schülerlisten der Landschafterklassen von Schirmer bis Dücker. In: Wend von Kalnein (Hrsg.): Die Düsseldorfer Malerschule. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9, S. 147.
- 2., Webseite im Portal malkasten.org, abgerufen am 17. Mai 2016
- 3.Das Ständchen, Titelaufnahme im Portal digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de, abgerufen am 17. Mai 2016
- 4.Wer ist’s? Verlag Hermann Degener, Leipzig 1911, Band 5, S. 576.
- 5.Eintrag Hempel, Hermann Carl. In: Adreß-Buch der Oberbürgermeisterei Düsseldorf 1889, abgerufen im Portal adressbuecher.net am 17. Mai 2016.
- 6., Webseite im Portal kunstfreund.eu, abgerufen am 17. Mai 2016.
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