Otto Hamel, St. Lawrence in Nuremberg
Atmospheric interior view of the St. Lawrence Church in Nuremberg with the ...

Otto Hamel, St. Lawrence in Nuremberg
Atmospheric interior view of the St. Lawrence Church in Nuremberg with the English Greeting by Veit Stoß hanging in the choir in the centre of the picture, to the left the sacrament box by Adam Kraft, below numerous worshippers and visitors, barely impasto painting done with loose brushwork, oil on canvas, 1st half 20th cent, signed "Otto Hamel" lower right, somewhat in need of cleaning, framed in a beautiful gold stucco frame, folding dimensions approx. 81 x 61 cm. Artist's info: actually Otto August Maximilian Hammel, German landscape, architecture and genre painter. Landscape, architecture and genre painter as well as lithographer (1866 Erfurt to 1950 Lohr am Main), apprenticeship as a decorative painter in his father's business, studied at the art school in Erfurt under Eduard von Hagen and Hans Semper, pupil at the Unterrichtsanstalt des Kunstgewerbemuseums in Berlin under Max Koch and Franz Skarbina, 1886 with a state scholarship in Italy, 1887 own studio in Berlin, 1889-90 at the Akademie Julian in Paris under Benjamin Constant, Tony Robert-Fleury and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre, 1890-1922 active as professor at the School of Applied Arts in Hanover, from 1898 maintained his own student studio, undertook study trips to Holland, Austria, Hungary, France, Spain, Italy and Dalmatia, member of the Reichsverband Bildender Künstler Deutschlands, since 1922 resident in Munich, 1943 bombed out in Munich and moved to Lohr, Source: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Saur "Bio-Bibliographisches Künstlerlexikon", Dressler and Wikipedia.