Carl Maria Nicolaus Hummel (31 August 1821,

Weimar Weimar is a city in the state (Germany), German state of Thuringia, in Central Germany (cultural area), Central Germany between Erfurt to the west and Jena to the east, southwest of Leipzig, north of Nuremberg and west of Dresden. Together w ...

– 16 June 1907, Weimar) was a German landscape painter and etcher.

Life and work

He was the son of Austrian composer

Johann Nepomuk Hummel Johann Nepomuk Hummel (14 November 177817 October 1837) was an Austrian composer and pianist. His music reflects the transition from the Classical to the Romantic musical era. He was a pupil of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Antonio Salieri, and ...

and the opera singer Elisabeth Röckel. His studies began in 1841 under Friedrich Preller at the

Fürstliche freie Zeichenschule Weimar The Weimar Princely Free Drawing School () was an art and literature educational establishment. It was set up in 1776 in Weimar by the scholar and ducal private-secretary Friedrich Justin Bertuch (1747–1822) and the painter Georg Melchior Kraus ...

. After graduating, he made several study trips to England, Norway,

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and the

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, lingering in Italy and Sicily until 1846. Upon his return, he settled in Weimar, where he became a professor at the

Weimar Saxon-Grand Ducal Art School The Grand-Ducal Saxon Art School, Weimar (German:Großherzoglich-Sächsische Kunstschule Weimar) was founded on 1 October 1860, in Weimar, Germany, by a decree of Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. It existed until 1910, when ...

in 1860. His paintings focus primarily on the Italian and Tyrolean

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. They are widely displayed at museums throughout Northern Europe, including the Musée de la Vie Romantique in Paris.

Sources

* "Carl Hummel", in

Thieme-Becker Thieme-Becker is a German biographical dictionary of artists. Thieme-Becker The dictionary was begun under the editorship of Ulrich Thieme (1865–1922) (volumes one to fifteen) and Felix Becker (1864–1928) (volumes one to four). It was compl ...

, ''Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart''. Vol. 18, E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1925, p. 127. * Paul Schmaling: ''Künstlerlexikon Hessen-Kassel 1777–2000. Mit den Malerkolonien Willingshausen und Kleinsassen.'' Jenior, Kassel 2001, .

External links

ArtNet: Eleven pages of paintings by Hummel
* 1821 births 1907 deaths German landscape painters 19th-century German painters German male painters 19th-century German male artists {{Germany-painter-stub