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Heinrich Hermanns (19 May 1862 – 21 December 1942, Düsseldorf) was a German
lithographer Lithography () is a planographic method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by the German ...
and landscape painter. He was also known for architectural paintings and
vedute A ''veduta'' (; : ''vedute'') is a highly detailed, usually large-scale painting or, more often, print of a cityscape or some other vista. The painters of ''vedute'' are referred to as ''vedutisti''. Origins This genre of landscape originated ...
and was associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule.


Biography

Boen in Düsseldorf, Hermanns completed his primary education in 1883 and went on to study at the
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf The Kunstakademie Düsseldorf is the academy of fine arts of the state of North Rhine Westphalia at the city of Düsseldorf, Germany. Notable artists who studied or taught at the academy include Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Blinky Palermo, Ma ...
with
Eugen Dücker Eugen Gustav Dücker ( – 6 December 1916) was a German landscape painter, born a Russian Imperial subject on Saaremaa (then Governorate of Livonia, present-day Estonia), associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule. Biography He was born ...
, Heinrich Lauenstein, Georg Heinrich Crola and Johann Peter Theodor Janssen. There, in response to the conservative policies of the , he joined with
Olof Jernberg Olof August Andreas Jernberg (23 May 1855, Düsseldorf – 15 February 1935, Berlin) was a German landscape and marine painter of Swedish ancestry; associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule. Life and work His father was the Swedish Genre a ...
, Eugen Kampf and Helmuth Liesegang to form the "Lucas-Club"; an association of forward-looking landscape painters. By 1891, the club had become subordinated to the , and remained so until 1899, when a new "St. Lukas-Club" broke away. He graduated from the Kunstakademie in 1893. He had a special fondness for the landscapes of Holland, West and Northwest Germany. After 1887, he was a frequent visitor to
Hümmling The Hümmling (''Homelinghen'', from ''hömil'' = small stone) is a ground moraine landscape, up to , in the Emsland region on the North German Plain in the western part of the German state of Lower Saxony. Location The wooded Hümmling, whic ...
. He also took long study trips to France, Spain and Italy, especially
Lake Garda Lake Garda (, , or , ; ; ) is the largest lake in Italy. It is a popular holiday location in northern Italy, between Brescia and Milan to the west, and Verona and Venice to the east. The lake cuts into the edge of the Eastern Alps, Italian Alp ...
, Naples and Sicily. Later, he turned to architectural scenes and interiors; often rendered in
watercolor Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (Commonwealth English; see American and British English spelling differences#-our, -or, spelling differences), also ''aquarelle'' (; from Italian diminutive of Latin 'water'), is a painting metho ...
s. Until the 1930s, he held showings at most major German art exhibitions, including the ( Glaspalast in Munich, the
Große Berliner Kunstausstellung Große Berliner Kunstausstellung (Great Berlin Art Exhibition), abbreviated GroBeKa or GBK, was an annual art exhibition that existed from 1893 to 1969 with intermittent breaks. In 1917 and 1918, during World War I, it was not held in Berlin bu ...
and the ). In 1900, he was appointed to the artistic advisory board of ', a cultural journal.Sabine Brenner: ''"Das Rheinland aus dem Dornröschenschlaf wecken!" Zum Profil der Kulturzeitschrift Die Rheinlande (1900–1922)''. Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 2004


References


Further reading

* Hans Paffrath (Ed.): ''Lexikon der Düsseldorfer Malerschule 1819–1918.'' Vol. 2: ''Haach–Murtfeldt'', Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf im Ehrenhof and the
Galerie Paffrath The Galerie Paffrath is an art gallery in Düsseldorf, Germany, specialising in paintings of the 19th century. Profile Galerie Paffrath specialises in 19th-century paintings, in particular works by painters of the Düsseldorf school of painting, ...
. Bruckmann, 1998, . * Hans Vollmer (Ed.): ''Künstlerlexikon''. Vol. 2, E. A. Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 1955.


External links


More works by Hermanns
@ ArtNet * Biographical sketch from
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 ...
in Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.)
''Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie.''
Vol. 4: ''Görres–Hittorp.'' Saur Verlag, 2006, {{DEFAULTSORT:Hermanns, Heinrich 1862 births 1942 deaths 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German landscape painters German lithographers Kunstakademie Düsseldorf alumni 20th-century German painters 20th-century German male artists