Adolph Friedrich Vollmer

Adolph Friedrich Vollmer ( born December 17, 1806 Hamburg, † February 12, 1875 ) was a German landscape and marine painter and graphic artist. He belongs to Christian Morgenstern to the pioneers of the early painterly realism in Hamburg.

Life

Adolph Friedrich Vollmer grew up as the son of a Hamburg action bookkeeper, Johann Peter Vollmer (1779-1849), in modest circumstances on.

Despite the opposition of his father, he took up an apprenticeship in the graphic workshop of the brothers Suhr and pulled a half years with Cornelius Suhr by Germany, during which time he was not much different than the servant Suhr. After that, he became a pupil of Friedrich Rosenberg in Altona (1758-1833), without this great influence had exercised upon him. Well on the advice of Freedom Ring. v. Rumohr, whom he met in 1826 by the art dealer and a founding member of the Hamburg Art Association Ernst resins ( 1790-1863 ), Vollmer completed his training at the Academy in Copenhagen Eckerberg ( 1831-1832 ). 1833 Vollmer went for six years after Munich and from there undertook study trips to Constance, Tyrol, Salzburg, Venice, Le Havre and the Netherlands.

Again established since 1839 in Hamburg, Hamburg, Vollmer married Auguste Amale Behrmann ( 1815-1855 ). He had five children from this marriage, among them the later architect Johannes Vollmer, and three other children from his second marriage with Julie Natalie de la Camp. A daughter of this second marriage in 1891 married the well-known gynecologist Johann Friedrich Ahlfeld. Two of his grandsons, sons of John Vollmer, the art historian and encyclopedist Hans Vollmer (1878-1969) and the painter and sculptor Erwin Vollmer are ( 1884-1973 ).

1866 Vollmer blind; He died in 1875 in the mental hospital Hamburg -Friedrich Berg.

Work

In his landscapes and views of Hamburg Harbor Vollmer breaks with the views painted by the brothers Suhr; also have its landscapes nothing of the transcendental romance of 30 years older Caspar David Friedrich nor related social positions, as it will make later the younger Menzel. His work is more in the tradition of the great Dutch landscape painters of the 17th century, a Salomon van Ruysdael, for example. His best pictures are carefully crafted compositions. Dammann puts it: " The planned and achieved effect is not space per se, but control and design of the room at any depth. " Even in small -scale drawings and etchings succeeds Vollmer with very fine strokes width and depth to create. Even with only a few millimeters wide representations people are alive characterized in their pursuits.

According to contemporary opinion of the art historian Georg Kaspar Nagler Adolph Friedrich Vollmer is one of the largest Seemalern his time and Gerhard Kaufmann wrote 120 years later: " Among the few German navy painters that gets in its lively, light-filled descriptions of the Port of Hamburg and the Elbe a high rank to. "

Works by Adolph Friedrich Vollmer found, inter alia in the Hamburger Kunsthalle, the Altona Museum, the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, the State Museum of Art Copenhagen, the British Museum in London and the Philadelphia Museum of Art

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Fresh breeze on the Elbe at Blankenese, 1830

Port of Hamburg, left the former blockhouse, 1839

The shipyard Reiherstieg in Hamburg, 1840

The rod mill ground in the Saxon Forest, 1852