Langhammer Portrait einer jungen Frau 1882

Arthur Langhammer (July 6, 1854 – July 4, 1901) was a German

Impressionist Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by visible brush strokes, open Composition (visual arts), composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage ...

painter and illustrator best known for rural

genre paintings Genre painting (or petit genre) is the painting of genre art, which depicts aspects of everyday life by portraying ordinary people engaged in common activities. One common definition of a genre scene is that it shows figures to whom no identity c ...

Biography

Arthur Langhammer was born in

Lützen Lützen () is a town in the Burgenlandkreis district of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Geography Lützen is situated in the Leipzig Bay, approximately southwest of the Leipzig city limits and northeast of Weißenfels. The town has access to the Bun ...

, Germany. He studied art first at the

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Art Academy and then at the

Munich Art Academy The Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (, also known as Munich Academy) is one of the oldest and most significant art academies in Germany. It is located in the Maxvorstadt district of Munich, in Bavaria, Germany. In the second half of the 19th centur ...

, graduating in 1882. He initially earned his living as an illustrator. In 1888 his friend

Adolf Hölzel Adolf Richard Hölzel (13 May 1853 – 17 October 1934) was a German painter. He began as a Realist, but later became an early promoter of various Modern styles, including Abstractionism. Biography Hölzel was born in Olmütz. His father wa ...

moved to the village of

Dachau Dachau (, ; , ; ) was one of the first concentration camps built by Nazi Germany and the longest-running one, opening on 22 March 1933. The camp was initially intended to intern Hitler's political opponents, which consisted of communists, s ...

, Germany, and Langhammer began spending time there as well. In 1897, Hölzel, Langhammer and

Ludwig Dill Wilhelm Franz Karl Ludwig Dill (2 February 1848, Gernsbach - 24 October 1940, Karlsruhe) was a German ship and landscape painter who was a founding member of the Munich Secession. Life and work He was the only son of the Tax Assessor (later ...

founded the "New Dachau" art school, which became the keystone of the burgeoning

Dachau art colony The Dachau Artists' Colony was located in Dachau, Bavaria, Dachau, Germany, and flourished from around 1890 until 1914. History In the early 19th century, the then-bucolic village of Dachau (located just 12 miles from Munich) began attracting lan ...

. In 1898, the new colony achieved national recognition when Hölzel, Dill, and Langhammer mounted a joint exhibition in Berlin under the title "The Dachauer". Langhammer moved to Dachau permanently in 1900. Langhammer specialized in idealized rural genre paintings of people working in the fields or at home. He painted in an Impressionist style with vigorous brushwork and a rich color palette. He showed with the

Munich Secession The Munich Secession (German language, German Münchener Secession) was an association of visual artists who broke away from the mainstream Munich Artists' Association in 1892, to promote and defend their art in the face of what they considered ...

, and his work is now held by museums and galleries in Dachau, Lützen and elsewhere. He died in Dachau.

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This page is in part translated from :de:Arthur Langhammer. Sources on that page include: *Diem, Eugen. "Langhammer, Artur". In ''Neue Deutsche Biographie'', vol. 13. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1982, p. 599. . (in German) *Roeßler, Artur. "Arthur Langhammer, ein Dachauer Meistermaler". In ''Wiener Zeitung'' supplement to the ''Wiener Abendpost'', Feb. 9, 1905, p. 8ff. (in German) {{DEFAULTSORT:Langhammer, Arthur 1854 births 1901 deaths German Impressionist painters German illustrators 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists People from Lützen