Hermann Kauffmann the Elder

Hermann Kauffmann the Elder studied at Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. The recorded working language is German. The field of work recorded is painting, lithography and art history. Places of work recorded in the authority are Munich and Hamburg. Work by Hermann Kauffmann the Elder is recorded in the collections of National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design and Print Collection.

• Illustration — Rast bei der Ernte 1889 Hermann Kauffmann was born in Hamburg, the son of a merchant and of the daughter of a silk trader. His first teacher was the Hamburg painter Gerdt Hardorff. From 1827 to 1833 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich; his teacher Peter Heß was one of the leading representatives of the Munich naturalists. Kauffmann then joined the Hamburg artists group in Munich, led by Andreas Borum, but soon left and studied nature. He returned to Hamburg in 1833. His work continued to be influenced by the Bavarian landscape. He made further landscape studies during journeys to north and south Germany, to Norway, and in and around Hamburg. He favored winter landscapes, such as Postwagen im Schneesturm, Schlittenbahn auf der Elbe, Fischerszene auf dem Eis. • Illustration — Günther Gensler, Die Mitglieder des Hamburger Künstlervereins (1840): Kauffmann standing, centre, wearing top hat Works by Kauffmann are on display in Hamburg at the Hamburger Kunsthalle and in the museums at Darmstadt, Hannover and Leipzig, and his painting of the Great Fire of Hamburg hangs in the Hamburg town hall. As a member of the Hamburg art society, he is immortalized in Günther Gensler's 1840 painting Die Mitglieder des Hamburger Künstlervereins. He died in Hamburg in 1889. The Hermann-Kauffmann-Straße in Hamburg-Barmbek is named for him. His son Hugo Kauffmann was also a painter. • Illustration — Painting by Kauffmann of the artist and Georg Haeselich in Kauffmann's atelier in Munich (1830)

• 1845: Am Soolbrunnen

* * • Bärbel Hedinger: Hermann Kauffmann 1808-1899 - Bilder aus Norddeutschland. Ausstellungskatalog, Altonaer Museum, Norddeutsches Landesmuseum, 1989,