Johannes Hau (17 April 1771, Flensburg - 3 August 1838,

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) was a Baltic-German landscape painter.

Life and work

His father, Jens Petersen Hau, was a ship's captain. In 1795, he left his hometown and moved to Tallinn (Reval, in German). There, he became a master painter and by 1806, he was serving as an ' (a type of administrative official) with the Canute Guild. From 1818 until his death, he was the guild's chairman. He is best remembered for his small-scale ''

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'' of Reval and

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done in

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. These were very popular with upper-class people from St. Petersburg, who came to visit the city's spas. In 1823, he organized an exhibition at his home, which was one of the first solo exhibitions of any type held in Reval.Moonika Teemus, ''Ära võõrale maale, kaugetesse paikadesse. Johannes Hau (1771–1838) kosmoraama'', Kuus baltisaksa kunstnikku, 2008 He was interred at the

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, which was destroyed in the 1940s, during the second

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. His two sons,

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and

Woldemar Hau Woldemar Hau (Russian: ''Владимир Иванович Гау''; 1816 – 1895) was a Baltic German portrait painter who worked in the Biedermeier style. Life and work He was the son of painter Johannes Hau, who had emigrated from No ...

, also became well known painters.

Views of Reval (Tallinn)

File:Hau-Artillery.jpg, Russian Coast Artillery in the Harbor File:Hau-Reval.jpg, View of Reval from the Northeast File:Hau-Gate.jpg, View of the Great Coastal Gate

References

External links

* Baltische Historische Kommission
entry for Johannes Hau
In: Baltisches Biografisches Lexikon Digital
More works by Johannes Hau
at the

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, Digital Collection {{DEFAULTSORT:Hau, Johannes 1771 births 1838 deaths Baltic-German people 18th-century German painters 18th-century German male artists Estonian painters Landscape painters People from Flensburg 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists