page_title: Christian Gottlob Hammer
section_title: Style
hierarchical_section_title: Christian Gottlob Hammer / Style
context_page_description: Christian Gottlob Hammer, baptized as Gottlieb, was an influential German landscape painter and engraver.
context_section_description: Hammer's works are extensive: including his own designs in sepia, watercolor, and opaque colors, and also copper etchings from his own drafts and those of other artists, such as Caspar David Friedrich, Gottlob Friedrich Thormeyer, Johann Clausen Dahl, Georg Heinrich Crola et al.
  His works consist primarily of landscapes and city views, particularly in  Saxony and his home town of Dresden, and the vicinity.  He also took inspiration from Saxon Switzerland.
  Several of Hammer's works were published by Heinrich Rittner, a Dresden art dealer, in the volume "Dresden mit seinen Pachtgebäuden und schönsten Umgebungen" ("Dresden with her splendid buildings and beautiful surroundings"). An 1810 volume printed by Carl Christian Meinhold had prompted a great deal of interest in Dresden at that time.
  Hammer was one of the first painters to discover the pristine water world of the Spreewald; he created several high-romantic pictures of this unique European landscape.
  Around the period 1820-1840, Count Hermann Rochus zu Lynar (1797-1878), the owner of the castle of Lübbenau, commissioned Hammer to paint several views of the castle.
  A great admirer of C. G. Hammer's works was Johann Wolfgang Goethe. He and Hammer met in the artist's Dresden studio during Goethe's stay in the town during 1810.
caption: The summer house of the prince Putjatin
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