Johann Hermann Carmiencke

Johann Hermann Carmiencke ( born February 9, 1810 in Hamburg, † June 15, 1867 in Brooklyn ) was a German landscape painter.

Life

After a painting apprenticeship in Hamburg Carmiencke went with his friend, the landscape painter Johann Paul Mohr in 1830 to Dresden, where both students of Johan Christian Clausen Dahl were. After a short stay in Munich and in the foothills Carmi corner returned to Hamburg, where he was admitted to the local art club in 1834 and made with his offering of Dahl outdoor trials for attention. From November 1834 to 1836 he continued his studies at the Art Academy, and developed a preference for forest and coastal landscapes. His friends included the Copenhagen German-born landscape painter Louis Gurlitt, John Mohr, Ernst Wolperding, Adolf Carl and Charles Ross. 1836 returned Carmi corner back to Dresden and wrong with Dahl and Caspar David Friedrich. He repeatedly visited his brother in Liegnitz (Silesia ).

In 1836 he met the Countess Emilie Schoenburg know on the AC castle, which employed him as a teacher of drawing their daughters for a few months. Carmi corner Saxony traveled and painted in the aftermath landscapes with views of the Saxon palaces and castles Kriebstein, Rochsburg, exchange castle and Hohenstein. In October 1837 he returned to Copenhagen back to get married. With the support of the Kunstverein Copenhagen and the Royal Picture Gallery, which gradually acquired five of his paintings, he established himself in Copenhagen as a landscape painter. In 1840 he received the right of citizenship in Copenhagen. 1838 and 1841 he toured Sweden. An auction of his works in Copenhagen Art Association in 1842 provided the means for a study trip to Munich and Tyrol, where he Castles recorded in the area of Merano, Bolzano and Trento and painted. 1845 Carmiencke Danish citizen. A scholarship from the Royal Academy gave him 1845/46 an extensive study tour of Italy. The impressions of his travels he worked not only in paintings but also in 1849-1851 two series of etchings.

The German - Danish War of 1848-51 disgusted him to stay in Copenhagen, he auctioned in Copenhagen Art Association again a large part of his work and moved in April 1851 to America and was based in New York. The motives of his landscapes he found in the US-Canadian border area and on the upper reaches of the Hudson. Stylistically, his works of this period are close to the so-called Hudson River School. After he had established himself as a painter in America, he left his family in 1855 from Copenhagen and was established to meet with her in Brooklyn. As Freemasons Carmi corner found access to the wealthiest merchants of New York.

In 1866 his studio laid the foundation for the "Brooklyn Academy of Art and Design".

Works

  • The age at Poppenbuettel, 1833, Kunsthalle Hamburg
  • Roch Castle Castle in Saxony, in 1837, Kunsthalle Hamburg
  • Area in Upper Lusatia facing Böhnen, around 1838, Statens Museum Copenhagen
  • The Adige Valley near Bolzano with the ruins Haselburg, 1845, Statens Museum Copenhagen
  • Poughkeepsie Iron Works, 1856. Yale University Art Gallery, New aven, Connecticut
  • The Hudson River at Hyde Parrk, 1856. Orlando Museum
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