Hermann Carl Hempel

Hermann Carl Hempel (13 April 1848 – 26 September 1921) was a German landscape painter and illustrator of the Düsseldorf school of painting and director of the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf.

Born in Stralsund, Hempel studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy.

[1] Hempel was a member of the artists' associations Malkasten, Laetitia and Orient.

On 13 February 1875, he starred on the Malkasten stage in the farce Das Ständchen.

[2] In 1877, he married Adele, the daughter of the Düsseldorf landscape painter Friedrich Heunert [de].