Johann Erdmann Hummel

Johann Erdmann Hummel ( born September 11, 1769 in Kassel, † October 26, 1852 in Berlin) was a German painter.

Life

Hummel studied from 1780 to 1792 at the Art Academy in Kassel. From 1792 to 1799 he lived in Italy, where he became friends with some German landscape painters who turned against the prevailing classical style by Anton Raphael Mengs. Artistically, he devoted himself mainly in Rome mythological themes. In 1799 he returned for a short time to Kassel, but went to Berlin, where he exception of a few shorter trips, forever remained a little later. He worked there as an illustrator, made ​​engravings of Luther's life and took care of the portrait painting. Particularly striking in this work is an artisan precision and an overemphasis on the design perspective, earning him the nickname " perspective Bumblebee " earned. In 1809 he was appointed professor of perspective, architecture and appearance to the Berlin Academy of Art. In addition, he joined in 1813 the outlaws Society of Berlin. In several paintings he made in 1831 in perspective accurately and in compliance with mirroring effects, built in the Berlin Lustgarten granite bowl dar. he found his final resting place in the cemetery II of Sophie community in Berlin, but the tomb has not survived.

Works (selection)

• Castle Wilhelm level with the Hawk Forest, 1800, Neue Galerie, Kassel
• The game of chess, around 1818 /19, National Gallery, Berlin; it is a game of chess at the Palais Voss in Wilhelmstrasse at Count Inge Heim, son of Frederick William II and Countess Voss. From left: the architect Hans Christian Genelli ( with clay pipe ), the archaeologist Aloys Hirt, Inge Heim, Friedrich Bury, Hummel at the window, Frederick William of Brandenburg ( half-brother of the client of the image, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands).
• Game of chess at the Palais Voss in Berlin, 1818, Lower Saxony State Museum
• The Granite Basin in the Lustgarten, 1831, National Gallery, Berlin