Late 19 Century German Gouache Painting By Hans Herrmann (1858-1942)

Watercolor and gouache painting by German artist Hans Herrmann (1858-1942)

Busy day in Amsterdam

Signed lower left

Size of opening: 14 3/4 by 10 1/2 inches

Frame: 21 1/2 by 18 inches



Hans Herrmann (1858-1942) (b Berlin, 8 March 1858; d Berlin, 1942). German painter. From 1874 to 1879 he studied at the K”niglich-akademische Hochschule fr Bildende Knste in Berlin. In 1880 he moved to Dsseldorf, where until 1883 he attended the landscape class of Eugen Dcker (1841-1916). From Dsseldorf he made study tours to the Netherlands, which he then continued every year after his return to Berlin in 1886. Meat Market in Middelburg (1887; Berlin, Tiergarten, N.G.) clearly reveals how at this time he was trying to break away from an illusionistic construction of space for a structure based on the immediate visual impression. In Messberg in the Evening (1890; Hamburg, Ksthalle) the immediacy of the optical impression is already more firmly in the foreground. The apparently arbitrary detail shown in the painting is particularly striking. The figures in the foreground, typical for this market, also testify, however, that Herrmann could not entirely abandon anecdotal details, and that his initial attempts at presenting visual impressions through painterly means did not consistently go any further. In 1892, with Walter Leistikow, Max Liebermann and others, he formed the Gruppe der XI, a forerunner of the Berlin Secession, although he played only a very minor role in its history.





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