Adolph Wasmann, a medical doctor, was the younger brother of the artist. He was born in Hamburg on 20 December 1807 and died 24 November 1853 at the age of only forty-five. On 1 July 1843, in Berlin, at the age of thirty-five, he had married the twenty-year-old Caroline Luise Mathilde Behrens. Born in Berlin in May of 1823, she survived her husband by more than thirteen years. But she would die in Hamburg on 28 March 1867 at the age of forty-three, even younger than her husband had been at the time of his death. I haven't been able to find any record of children, or any explanation for their early deaths. Considering the date of the portraits, they were certainly created to commemorate the couple's wedding.
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| Dr. Adolph Wasmann. |
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| Caroline Luise Mathilde Wasmann née Behrens. |
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They are very fine portraits. So I wonder Wasmann was a totally unfamiliar name to me, even after a good degree in art history. Do you know in which gallery the two portraits are held?
ReplyDeleteI believe they are both in the collection of the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg.
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