Hermann Kauffmann

Place: Hamburg

Born: 1808

Death: 1889

Biography:

Hermann Kauffmann (the elder) also Herrmann Kauffmann (7 November 1808 – 24 May 1889) was a German painter and lithographer, and one of the main representatives of the Hamburger Schule. Hermann Kauffmann was born in Hamburg, the son of a merchant and of the daughter of a silk trader. His first teacher was the Hamburg painter Gerdt Hardorff. From 18...