Hermann Kauffmann (the elder) also Herrmann Kauffmann[1] (7 November 1808 – 24 May 1889) was a German painter and lithographer, and one of the main representatives of the Hamburger Schule.
[2] Hermann Kauffmann was born in Hamburg, the son of a merchant and of the daughter of a silk trader.
Kauffmann then joined the Hamburg artists group in Munich, led by Andreas Borum, but soon left and studied nature.
He made further landscape studies during journeys to north and south Germany, to Norway, and in and around Hamburg.
He favored winter landscapes, such as Postwagen im Schneesturm, Schlittenbahn auf der Elbe, Fischerszene auf dem Eis.