Adolf Meckel von Hemsbach
Landscape in Sinai
Paintings
Bedouins in the Desert
Berlin, English gasworks on the River Spree
Adolf Meckel von Hemsbach (born February 17, 1856 in Berlin, Germany, May 24, 1893) was a German landscape and genre painter.
Adolf Meckel came from the old Kurlandic nobility and was a descendant of Johann Friedrich Meckel (the older one, 1724-1774), German anatomist and founder of the Meckel collection.
Adolf Meckel was born in 1856 as the son of professor of pathological anatomy Johann Heinrich Meckel von Hemsbach (1821-1856) and his wife Theophile von Denffer (1824-1902). After his father's early death, he spent his childhood with the maternal grandparents in Saint Petersburg. He attended high school in Stuttgart, where he also had first drawing lessons. He studied painting at the Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts at Hans Fredrik Gude. [1]
Between 1880 and 1881, he visited the Arab countries with Eugen Bracht and Carl Coven Schirm: Egypt, Palestine, the coast of the Dead Sea, then Jordan. Further trips took him to the countries of the North African Maghreb. Among others, he visited the Katharinenkloster at the foot of Mount Sinai. Besides the tropical landscapes, he created numerous oriental genre scenes. After his last homecoming, he was first resident in Karlsruhe, then returned to his native town in 1892.
Meckel was regularly represented at the Royal Academy of the Arts in Berlin, [2] the Grand Berlin Art Exhibitions [3] [4] and the Munich Glass Palace, [5] but also in Dresden, Stuttgart and Vienna. A list of over 100 works by Meckel can be found at F. von Boetticher. [6]
Meckel sent the Great Berlin Art Exhibition in 1893 with four paintings. "The rejection of a registered fifth picture, which the artist felt as a deep affront, is said to have caused his early death." [6] He took his life in 1893.
literature
Adolf Meckel from Hemsbach. In: Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker et al .: General Lexicon of the Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present. Vol. 24, E. A. Seemann, Leipzig, 1930, p. 325.
Meckel, Adolf of. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: 19th Century Paintings, Contribution to the History of Art. Dresden, 1898, Vol. 2, pp. 2-4
Benezit: Dictionnaire des Peintres. Vol. 9, p. 427.
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