Hugo Wilhelm Kauffmann (7 August 1844 – 30 December 1915) was a German painter, the son of
Hermann Kauffmann.
Kauffmann was born in
Hamburg
(male), (female) en, Hamburger(s),
Hamburgian(s)
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. In 1861 he went to Frankfurt and worked there under Jakob Becker, Eduard Jakob von Steinle and Johann Nepomuk Zwerger. From 1863 until 1871 he lived in Kronberg in the Taunus. During this time he spent one winter in Hamburg and a five-month period in Düsseldorf; afterwards he spent 1½ years in Paris, until 1870 when the Franco-Prussian War, war drove him out. He lived until 1871 in Munich.
Kauffmann is known mainly for genre art, genre paintings, often set in taverns.
[Muther, R. (1896). ''The History of Modern Painting: In Three Volumes. 2''. United Kingdom: Henry and Company. p. 278.] His paintings are usually small in scale and painted on wood. His work is representative of the Munich School.
He died in Prien at the Chiemsee in 1915.
Gallery
Hugo Kauffmann, 1879 - Lesender Alter.jpg, ''Lesender Alter'', 1879
Hugo Kauffmann - 01.jpg, ''Young Girl with prayer book'', 1888
File:Hugo Kauffmann In der Stube mit Holzknecht und Mädel beim Stricken 1889.jpg, ''Interior with a forester's assistant and a girl knitting'', 1889
File:Hugo Wilhelm Kauffmann - The daily news.jpg, ''The daily news''
References
1844 births
1915 deaths
19th-century German painters
19th-century German male artists
German male painters
20th-century German painters
20th-century German male artists
Artists from Hamburg
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