Heinrich Hermanns

Boen in Düsseldorf, Hermanns completed his primary education in 1883 and went on to study at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Eugen Dücker, Heinrich Lauenstein, Georg Heinrich Crola and Johann Peter Theodor Janssen.

There, in response to the conservative policies of the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen [de], he joined with Olof Jernberg, Eugen Kampf and Helmuth Liesegang to form the "Lucas-Club"; an association of forward-looking landscape painters.

By 1891, the club had become subordinated to the Freie Vereinigung Düsseldorfer Künstler [de], and remained so until 1899, when a new "St. Lukas-Club" broke away.

[2] He also took long study trips to France, Spain and Italy, especially Lake Garda, Naples and Sicily.

In 1900, he was appointed to the artistic advisory board of Die Rheinlande [de], a cultural journal.