Hermann Carl Hempel

Hermann Carl Hempel (13 April 1848 – 26 September 1921) was a German landscape painter and illustrator of the Düsseldorf school of painting and director of the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf.

Hermann Carl Hempel, painting by Wilhelm Schneider-Didam, 1907

Life

Born in Stralsund, Hempel studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. There Andreas Müller was his teacher. He also took lessons with the landscape painter Eugen Dücker.^[1] Hempel was a member of the artists' associations Malkasten, Laetitia and Orient. On 13 February 1875, he starred on the Malkasten stage in the farce Das Ständchen.^[2] In 1877, he married Adele, the daughter of the Düsseldorf landscape painter Friedrich Heunert [de]. The couple had two children, Friedrich, who became a concert organist, and Klara.^[3] From 1883 to 1920 Hempel was director and managing director of the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf.^[4] In 1900 and 1902 Hempel stayed in Katwijk.

Hempel died in Düsseldorf at the age of 73.

Work

Bad Pyrmont – Souvenirblatt, 1881, wood engraving by Richard Brend'amour after an original by Hermann Carl Hempel

• Templates for Bad Pyrmont – Souvenirblatt, coloured wood engravings by Richard Brend'amour, 1881^[5]
• Wassermühle
• Teilansicht von Moselkern
• Aprilstimmung
• Eifellandschaft mit Gehöft
• Herbstliche Waldstimmung mit Weitblick
• Impressionistische Landschaft