Hermann Gemmel
German painter, architect and professor
About Hermann Gemmel
Lived 1813 – 1868 (aged 54). Hermann Gemmel was a German architect, painter, university teacher and artist.
Hermann Johann Ernst Gemmel (28 November 1813 – 22 March 1868) was a German architect, painter, and art teacher at the Kunstakademie Königsberg.
Hermann Gemmel was born in Barten, East Prussia (now Barciany, Poland) in 1813. He studied painting with Karl Eduard Biermann, Wilhelm Schirmer, and Franz Krüger at the Academy of Arts, Berlin, and specialized in architecture painting, mainly sights from Germany and Italy. He became in 1855 the professor of perspective and architecture at the Kunstakademie Königsberg, and died in Königsberg in 1868.
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German painter, architect and professor (1813-1868)
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Hermann Gemmel was born on 28 November 1813 in Barciany.
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Hermann Gemmel died on 22 March 1868 in Königsberg.
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Hermann Gemmel was an architect, painter, university teacher and artist.
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Hermann Gemmel was German.
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