Artist

Johann Joachim Faber

Portrait of Johann Joachim Faber
Portrait of Johann Joachim Faber

Hamburg, 1778–1846

Johann Joachim Faber was a Hamburg Romanticism artist. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at National Gallery of Art. Johann Joachim Faber was born in Hamburg.

Johann Joachim Faber (12 April 1778 – 2 August 1846) was a landscape painter who was born in Hamburg. He worked originally at historical subjects, and painted the altar-piece, Suffer Little Children to come unto Me, for St. Catharine's Church at Hamburg. On his journey to Italy in company with J. A. Koch and Reinhardt, he was induced to adopt landscape painting, in which line he is best known.

The Berlin Gallery contains a View of the Capuchin Monastery, near Naples by him (1830). He died in Hamburg in 1846.

Works by Johann Joachim Faber

Collections represented

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