Woldemar Hau

Woldemar Hau studied at Imperial Academy of Arts. The recorded working language is German and Russian. The field of work recorded is painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Dresden and Saint Petersburg. Work by Woldemar Hau is recorded in the collections of Museum of Tropinin and His Contemporaries, Moscow, Hermitage Museum, Art Museum of Estonia and Tretyakov Gallery.

• Born — 4 February 1816 • Birthplace — Reval, Russian Empire • Died — 11 March 1895 • Place of death — Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire • Resting Place — Smolensky Lutheran Cemetery, Saint Petersburg • Known for — Watercolor painting • Alma Mater — Alumni • Education — Member

He was the son of painter Johannes Hau, who had emigrated from Northern Germany in 1795, and he grew up in the German community of Reval (now Tallinn, Estonia). His half-brother was the painter Eduard Hau. In addition to his father, he studied with the former court painter Karl von Kügelgen. At the age of 16, he was offered an opportunity to paint the grand duchesses and received a letter of recommendation to Alexander Sauerweid, a professor at the Imperial Academy of Arts. From 1833 to 1835, he was a "guest student" at the Academy. He worked as a freelance painter for three years, then travelled extensively throughout Italy and Germany for two years. On his return, he was named court painter, spending the next three decades painting the imperial family and their associates. He was appointed a member of the Academy in 1849. Among his most famous works are his portraits of Tsar Nicholas I and Tsarina Alexandra Fyodorovna. He eventually painted all the members of the imperial family as well as many familiar figures in Russian and Baltic German society, such as Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann and Natalia Pushkina. He also produced 200 miniature portraits of veterans of the Izmaylovsky Regiment. He died on 23 March 1895 in Saint Petersburg.

• Illustration — Countess Yuliya Samoylova (1840) • Illustration — Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mikhailovna of Russia (1844) • Illustration — Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna and Her Children (1845) • Illustration — Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia (1845) • Illustration — Peter von der Pahlen (1847) • Illustration — Count Nikolay Adlerberg (1847) • Illustration — Filaret, Metropolitan of Moscow (1854)

The authorities additionally record the headings Vladimir Hau, Woldemar Ivanovich Khau, Woldemar Ivanovich Gau, Woldemar Ivanovich Hau and Baltic German painter in Russia. His recorded languages were German and Russian. He was the child of Johannes Hau. He married Luisa Hau.