Johann Hermann Carmiencke

1810-1867

Johann Hermann Carmiencke (1810–1867), born in Hamburg, made his career as a landscape painter and etcher across northern Europe and the United States. Trained in Dresden within J.C. Dahl's circle, he continued his studies in Copenhagen and Leipzig, then returned to Copenhagen in 1838 and spent the following years painting in Sweden, Bavaria, and the Tyrol, visiting Italy in 1845–46. His mountain views won him appointment as court painter to King Christian VIII of Denmark. The First Schleswig War prompted his move to New York in 1851, where he settled in Brooklyn, joined its Academy and the Artists' Fund Society, and became a respected teacher. His paintings — among them Mountain Tarn and View on the Zillerthal — are valued for their calm, faithful tonal rendering of mountain landscape, and he also produced some thirty-five etchings, several issued by the Copenhagen Art Association. His work is now held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and other institutions.