Hermann Gemmel
Illustration — View of the Cathedral of Magdeburg, 1844 Hermann Johann Ernst Gemmel (28 November 1813 – 22 March 1868) was a German architect, painter, and art teacher at the Kunstakademie Königsberg. Hermann Gemmel was born in Barten, East Prussia (now Barciany, Poland) in 1813. He studied painting with Karl Eduard Biermann, Wilhelm Schirmer, and Franz Krüger at the Academy of Arts, Berlin, and specialized in architecture painting, mainly sights from Germany and Italy.
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Hermann Gemmel
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- 1813 · Barciany.
- Died
- 1868 · Königsberg.
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- Kingdom of Prussia
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- architect · painter · university teacher · artist
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- German
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Illustration — View of the Cathedral of Magdeburg, 1844 Hermann Johann Ernst Gemmel (28 November 1813 – 22 March 1868) was a German architect, painter, and art teacher at the Kunstakademie Königsberg. Hermann Gemmel was born in Barten, East Prussia (now Barciany, Poland) in 1813. He studied painting with Karl Eduard Biermann, Wilhelm Schirmer, and Franz Krüger at the Academy of Arts, Berlin, and specialized in architecture painting, mainly sights from Germany and Italy.
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He became in 1855 the professor of perspective and architecture at the Kunstakademie Königsberg, and died in Königsberg in 1868.
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Hermann Gemmel was born on 28 November 1813.
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Hermann Gemmel died on 22 March 1868.
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- Gemmel, Hermann, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011
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- 1.Die Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) gibt als Geburtsjahr 1814 ohne genaueres Datum an.
- 2., Ausstellungskatalog 1849, abgerufen am 30. Mai 2010
- 3.Verzeichnis der Ausstellungskataloge der Kunsthalle Bremen / 1829-2004.
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Hermann Gemmel is recorded with the occupation university teacher. Recorded as architect, painter, university teacher and artist.
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