Johann Hermann Carmiencke
American (1810-1867)
Born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1810 Johann Hermann Carmiencke moved to Dresden in 1831 to study with the Norwegian-born landscape painter Johan Christian Dahl. Carmiencke left Dresden in 1834 to continue his education at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen where he studied with Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg. In 1845 he spent a year in Italy after traveling throughout Sweden, Germany and Austria. The following year Carmiencke was appointed court painter to King Christian VIII of Denmark. Alarmed by mounting anti-German sentiment at the outbreak of the First Schleswig War between Germany and Denmark, Carmiencke immigrated to the United States in 1851 where he settled in Brooklyn and soon became an active member of the Artists’ Fund Society of New York and the Brooklyn Art Association. In 1866, Carmiencke, along with 23 other artists, left the Brooklyn Art Association to establish the Brooklyn Academy of Design.
Carmiencke exhibited at the National Academy of Design, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Brooklyn Art Association, Boston Athenæum and Smithsonian American Art Museum. His work is in several collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; Brooklyn Museum; National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark; Harvard University Art Museums and Yale University Art Gallery.
