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Adolf Meckel von Hemsbach (17 February 1856 – 24 May 1893) was a German landscape painter.
File:Adolf Meckel von Hemsbach - Der Tscheppasee im Engadin 1876.jpg, ''Tscheppasee im Engadin'', 1876
File:Adolf Meckel von Hemsbach - Orientalische Szene.jpg, ''Oriental scene''
File:Adolf von Meckel (attr) Landschaft in Sinai.jpg, ''Landscape in Sinai''
File:Adolf Meckel von Hemsbach - Vue de la mosquée Sidi Abderrahman 1892.jpg, ''View of the Mosque at Sidi Abderrahman'', 1892
File:Adolf Meckel von Hemsbach - British Gas Works on the River Spree.jpg, ''British Gas Works on the River Spree'', Berlin
29 Meckel paintings on Artnet.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:Meckel, Adolf, von Hemsbach 1856 births 1893 deaths Painters from Berlin 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists Artists who died by suicide Suicides in Germany 1890s suicides German landscape painters
Biography
He was born in Berlin, the son of a professor of pathological anatomy, Johann Heinrich Meckel von Hemsbach (1821-1856) and his wife Theophile von Denffer (1824-1902). After the early death of his father, he spent his childhood with the maternal grandparents in St. Petersburg, Russia. He attended high school in Stuttgart, where he had his first drawing lessons, and then studied painting at the Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts under Hans Fredrik Gude. In the years 1880-1881 he visited a number of Arab countries with fellow artistsEugen Bracht
Eugen Felix Prosper Bracht (3 June 1842 – 5 November 1921) was a German landscape painter.
Biography
Bracht was born in Morges, Waadt (near Lake Geneva in Switzerland) of German parents. His family later moved to Darmstadt, Germany, where ...
and Carl Coven Schirm. Among other places, he visited St. Catherine's Monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai
Mount Sinai ( he , הר סיני ''Har Sinai''; Aramaic: ܛܘܪܐ ܕܣܝܢܝ ''Ṭūrāʾ Dsyny''), traditionally known as Jabal Musa ( ar, جَبَل مُوسَىٰ, translation: Mount Moses), is a mountain on the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. It is ...
, which he recorded in oils. In addition to landscapes, he painted a number of oriental scenes. On his return he was initially based in Karlsruhe, but then moved back to Berlin in 1892.
Back in Berlin Meckel was represented regularly at the exhibitions of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
The Academy of Arts (german: Akademie der Künste) is a state arts institution in Berlin, Germany. The task of the Academy is to promote art, as well as to advise and support the states of Germany.
The Academy's predecessor organization was fo ...
and the Great Berlin Art Exhibitions, as well as in the Munich Glass Palace, Dresden, Stuttgart and Vienna. A list of over 100 of Meckel's works was catalogued by F. von Boetticher.
Meckel attended the Great Berlin Art Exhibition in 1893 with four paintings, but a fifth was rejected. He took his own life in Berlin later that same year.
Selected works
References
*This article is largely based on the equivalent article on German WikipediaExternal links
29 Meckel paintings on Artnet.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:Meckel, Adolf, von Hemsbach 1856 births 1893 deaths Painters from Berlin 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists Artists who died by suicide Suicides in Germany 1890s suicides German landscape painters