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“Hazy Evening Summer”

Carl Hampel (Australian 1887-1940)

$900.00

MATERIALS:

Oil Painting

DIMENSIONS:

image size 39.5cm x 29cm frame size 50cm x 39.5cm x 4.5cm

INSCRIPTIONS:

Signed ‘Carl Hampel’

“was mainly self-taught and briefly studied under Max Meldrum in Melbourne”

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Bio

Carl Hampel Bio

Born about 1887 in Bendigo Originally a farmer Hampel brilliantly able was mainly self-taught and briefly studied under Max Meldrum in Melbourne Hampel won fame for his Mallee landscapes, He moved to and lived in London where Queen Mary bought one of his still life’s at his first Bond St Exhibition, Many works by the artist have been sold at auction including ‘The little white bench’ sold at Christie’s Amsterdam ‘A European Corporate Collection’.

In 2012 Hampel was a founding member of the society of 20 Melbourne Painters, Tragically Carl and his wife Bertha and son Kim age 12 were killed when a large bomb wrecked their 3 storey Hampstead London Home in an air raid in September 1940 during WW2.