Christian Gottlob Hammer

Christian Gottlob Hammer ( born July 18, 1779 in Dresden, † February 7, 1864 ibid; baptized as a Christian Gottlieb Hammer ) was a German landscape painter and engraver in the Romantic era.

Life and work

Christian Gottlob Hammer began his training in 1794 at the Dresden Art Academy. Four years later he became a pupil of Johann Philipp Veith, who in turn had learned at the same site landscape drawing and copperplate engraving with Adrian Zingg.

1816 Hammer was a member of the Academy and joined there in the famous circle of " Dresden Romantics " one, which included Caspar David Friedrich, Johann Christian Klengel and Jacob Crescenz Seydelmann. In 1829 he was appointed associate professor.

The Hammersche oeuvre is extensive. It consists of both own drawings in sepia, water and body color, as well as from etchings and engravings from his own designs and numerous paintings by other artists such as Caspar David Friedrich, Gottlob Friedrich Thor Meyer, Johann Clausen Dahl, Ernst Ferdinand Oehme, Robert Kummer, Georg Heinrich Crola and others.

In essence, he created landscapes and city views, especially from Saxony and his hometown of Dresden and its surroundings. Thus, several of his works in the book edited by the Dresden art dealer Heinrich Rittner band included " Dresden with its splendid buildings and beautiful environments ." This Hofbuchdrucker by Carl Christian Meinhold 1810 printed splendor band had once found in Dresden attention.

Similarly, Hammer was in Bohemia (Karlsbad and Teplitz ) and Silesia go and belonged to the third generation of painters on the so-called Malerweg through Saxon Switzerland. He was also one of the first painters who discovered the primeval water world in the Spreewald and so he created several highly romantic images of this unique landscape in Europe. For the Lübbenauer Schlossherren Hermann Rochus to Lynar (1797-1878) drew hammer which had been inherited from the Middle Ages castle before its demolition in 1818, documented until 1820 several phases of the new building of the classicist castle Lübbenau and finally held different views of the future structural changes in the 1840s firmly.

Furthermore, Hammer was busy, the motives, the various travel writers had collected on the way to erase, or to sting, so they could be reproduced accordingly.

A great admirer of the hammer 's creation was Johann Wolfgang Goethe, who in 1810 visited the painter during his stay in Dresden in his studio.

Today, works Christian Gottlob Hammer are among others in Dresden in the Print Room and the City Museum; in Lübbenauer castle, in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the Goethe National Museum in Weimar and in many art actions within and outside Germany. In the Albertina in Vienna is a series of works hammer, which had acquired the Duke Albert of Saxe -Teschen.