Arthur Langhammer (July 6, 1854 – July 4, 1901) was a German Impressionist painter and illustrator best known for rural genre paintings.
Arthur Langhammer was born in Lützen, Germany. He studied art first at the Leipzig Art Academy and next at the Munich Art Academy, graduating in 1882. He initially earned his full of life as an illustrator.
In 1888 his buddy Adolf Hölzel moved to the village of Dachau, Germany, and Langhammer began spending get older there as well. In 1897, Hölzel, Langhammer and Ludwig Dill founded the “New Dachau” art school, which became the keystone of the burgeoning Dachau art colony. In 1898, the additional colony achieved national salutation when Hölzel, Dill, and Langhammer mounted a joint exhibition in Berlin below the title “The Dachauer”. Langhammer moved to Dachau permanently in 1900.
Langhammer specialized in idealized rural genre paintings of people full of life in the fields or at home. He painted in an Impressionist style with practicing brushwork and a wealthy color palette. He showed taking into account the Munich Secession, and his action is now held by museums and galleries in Dachau, Lützen and elsewhere.
He died in Dachau.
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