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Johann Erdmann Hummel (11 September 1769,
Hummel studied at the
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Entry for Johann Erdmann Hummel
on the Union List of Artist Names
Porträt: Johann Erdmann Hummel
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hummel, Johann Erdmann 1769 births 1852 deaths 18th-century German painters 18th-century German male artists German male painters 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists Artists from Kassel
Johann Erdmann Hummel (11 September 1769, Kassel
Kassel (; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Kassel and the district of the same name and had 201,048 inhabitants in December 2020 ...
— 26 October 1852, Berlin
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) was a German painter
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Life
Hummel studied at the Kunsthochschule Kassel
Kunsthochschule Kassel (German; "Kassel College of Art") is a college of fine arts in Kassel, Germany. Founded in 1777, it is a semi-autonomous department of the University of Kassel .
Notable people
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from 1780 to 1792. From 1792 to 1799 he lived in Rome, where he befriended various other German landscape painters who opposed the dominant classical style typified by the work of Anton Raphael Mengs. In his works from this period he primarily devoted himself to mythological themes. In 1799 he briefly returned to Kassel, and from there moved to Berlin, where he would remain for the rest of his life with the exception of a few short trips. He worked there as an illustrator, completing a series of engraving
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s for a biography of Martin Luther
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and painting occasional portraits. In 1809 he became a professor at the Prussian Academy of Arts
The Prussian Academy of Arts (German: ''Preußische Akademie der Künste'') was a state arts academy first established in Berlin, Brandenburg, in 1694/1696 by prince-elector Frederick III, in personal union Duke Frederick I of Prussia, and late ...
, teaching courses on perspective, optics, and architecture.
His work is characterized by a craftsman-like attention to detail and a scientific, emphasis on exact linear perspective.
Gallery
Citations
References
* * Georg Hummel: ''Der Maler Johann Erdmann Hummel. Leben und Werk''. Leipzig 1954.External links
*Entry for Johann Erdmann Hummel
on the Union List of Artist Names
Porträt: Johann Erdmann Hummel
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hummel, Johann Erdmann 1769 births 1852 deaths 18th-century German painters 18th-century German male artists German male painters 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists Artists from Kassel