Hermann Gemmel (1813 - 1868)

Hermann Gemmel

Hermann Johann Ernst Gemmel was a German architect and artist of the mid-nineteenth century. He is known as an architectural painter and educator.

Hermann Gemmel studied painting at the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts and began to specialize in architectural painting, depicting mainly architectural sites in East Prussia and Italy. These paintings of his are of great historical value today. In 1855 he became professor of perspective and architecture at the Königsberg Academy of Arts.