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Adolph Friedrich Vollmer (17 December 1806 - 12 February 1875) was a German landscape and marine painter and graphic artist. He and his contemporary, the painter Christian Morgenstern,[1] were pioneers in Hamburg of early Realism in painting.[2] Paintings
Life As son of a bookkeeper to a Hamburg merchant, Vollmer grew up in humble circumstances.[3] Determined to become a painter against the wishes of his father,[4] he became an apprentice to the brothers Suhr who owned a graphic workshop producing panorama prints. For one and a half years Vollmer travelled throughout Germany with one of the brothers, Cornelius Suhr, as had been Morgenstern before him. In 1826 he was introduced by the Hamburg art-dealer Ernst Harzen to the wealthy aristocrat and supporter of the arts, Carl Friedrich von Rumohr, who was patron to many young Hamburg artists among them Morgenstern and Otto Speckter.[1] Probably on Rumohr’s advice [2] Vollmer completed his studies under Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. He then moved to Munich from where he undertook journeys to Lake Konstanz, to the Austrian and Swiss Alps, to Venice, to Le Havre and to the Netherlands. In 1839 Vollmer returned to Hamburg and settled there. One of his sons, Johannes Vollmer, became a prominent architect of protestant churches; a grand-son was the art historian and encyclopaedist Hans Vollmer who, for many years, edited the Thieme-Becker Künstler Lexikon. Vollmer became blind in 1866.[5] Work Vollmer’s landscapes and views of the Hamburg Harbour are neither typical veduta nor are they influenced by Romanticism; they are rather in the tradition of the great Dutch landscape painters of the 17th century, for example of Salomon van Ruysdael. In his best paintings, despite the generally small format, he succeeds through carefully balanced compositions to create a sense of depth and of space. Figures in his drawings and etchings are often minute, only millimetres in size; nevertheless, by use of very fine lines he is able to render vivid depictions of people at work and leisure. Works of Adolph Friedrich Vollmer can be found, among other collections, at the Kunsthalle Hamburg, the Altonaer Museum in Hamburg , the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, the Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen and the British Museum. The Philadelphia Museum of Art holds a complete set of his known etchings. Notes ^ a b Andresen (1872) 3, 25.
Andresen, Andreas (1872) Die deutschen Maler-Radirer (Peintres-Graveurs) des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts nach ihren Leben und Werken. Leipzig: Weigel, 1866–1874, 3: 24-41, unaltered reprint: Hildesheim, New York: Olms, 1971. ISBN 3-487-04007-7 Dammann, Walter H. (1910), Panorama und Tafellandschaft – Anfänge und Frühzeit der Landschaftsmalerei in Hamburg bis 1830, Hamburg: Druck Lütcke & Wulff (Vetrieb Commetersche Kunsthandlung) Kegel, Gerhard (1997), [PDF-Datei; 5,7 MB "Ein Brief des Hamburger Malers Adolph Friedrich Vollmer an Otto Speckter aus dem Jahre 1827"], Zeitschrift des Vereins für Hamburgische Geschichte 83 (1): 343–366, ISSN 0083-5587 Lier, Hermann Arthur (1896), "Vollmer: Adolf Friedrich", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, 40, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 251–252 Nagler, Georg Kaspar, ed. (1850), "Vollmer, Adolph Friedrich", Neues allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon oder Nachrichten von dem Leben und den Werken der Maler, Bildhauer, Baumeister, Kupferstecher, etc (1835-52), 20, München: E. A. Fleischmann, pp. 516–517 Vollmer, Hans, ed. (1940), "Vollmer, Adolf Friedrich", Thieme-Becker: Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenen Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, 34, Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, pp. 527 Artist Index ==--==--==
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