Christian Gottlob Hammer

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Christian Gottlob Hammer
Christian Gottlob Hammer

Christian Gottlob Hammer (born 18 July 1779 in Dresden, Saxony; died 7 February 1864 in Dresden; baptized as Gottlieb ) was an influential German landscape painter and engraver.

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[edit] Life

Hammer began his studies in 1794 in the Dresden University of Visual Arts. Four years later he had become the senior apprentice of Johann Phillip Veith, who himself had learned landscape drawing and copper etching from Adrian Zingg at the same establishment.

In 1816 Hammer became an academy member, joining the famous circle of Dresden Romanticism, accompanying the likes of Caspar David Friedrich and Johann Christian Klengel.

In 1829 he was appointed as Professor extraordinarius.

[edit] Works

The summer house of the prince Putjatin
The summer house of the prince Putjatin

[edit] Description

Hammer's works are extensive: consisting of his own designs in sepia, water and opaque colors, and also of copper etchings from his own drafts and those of other artists, such as Caspar David Friedrich, Gottlob Friedrich Thormeyer, Johann Clausen Dahl, Georg Heinrich Crola et al. Hammer's works consisted essentially of documenting landscapes and city views, in particular from Saxony and his hometown of Dresden, and the vicinity; he also took inspiration from Saxon Switzerland.

Several of Hammer's works were published by Heinrich Rittner, a Dresden art dealer, in the volume "Dresden mit seinen Pachtgebäuden und schönsten Umgebungen" ("Dresden with her splendid buildings and beautiful surroundings"). An 1810 volume printed by Carl Christian Meinhold had prompted a great deal of interest in Dresden at that time.

Hammer was one of the first painters to discover the pristine water world of the Spreewald; he created several high-romantic pictures of this unique European landscape.

Around the period 1820-1840, Count Hermann Rochus zu Lynar (1797-1878), the owner of the castle of Lübbenau, commissioned Hammer to paint several views of the castle.

the Lilienstein rock in Saxon Switzerland
the Lilienstein rock in Saxon Switzerland

A great admirer of C. G. Hammer's works was Johann Wolfgang Goethe. He and Hammer met in the artist's Dresden studio during Goethe's stay in the town during 1810.

[edit] Collections

Today, the pictures of C. G. Hammer may be seen in:

and in many art museums in- and outside Germany.

The Albertina, Vienna also has in its possession a set of C. G. Hammer's works—originally collected by the Duke Albert of Saxe-Teschen.

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NAME Hammer, Christian Gottlob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hammer, Christian Gottlieb
SHORT DESCRIPTION German landscape painter and Engraver
DATE OF BIRTH 18. Juli 1779
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden, Saxony, Germany
DATE OF DEATH 7. Februar 1864
PLACE OF DEATH Dresden
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