Johannes Hau

Johannes Hau (17 April 1771, Flensburg - 3 August 1838, Reval) was a Baltic-German landscape painter.

Johannes Hau; portrait by Karl Johann Emanuel von Ungern-Sternberg (1807)

Life and work

His father, Jens Petersen Hau, was a ship's captain. In 1795, he left his hometown and moved to Tallinn (Reval, in German). There, he became a master painter and by 1806, he was serving as an Ältermann (a type of administrative official) with the Canute Guild. From 1818 until his death, he was the guild's chairman.

He is best remembered for his small-scale vedute of Reval and Narva done in gouache. These were very popular with upper-class people from St. Petersburg, who came to visit the city's spas.[1] In 1823, he organized an exhibition at his home, which was one of the first solo exhibitions of any type held in Reval.[2]

He was interred at the Kopli cemetery, which was destroyed in the 1940s, during the second Soviet occupation of the Baltic states.

His two sons, Eduard and Woldemar Hau, also became well known painters.

Views of Reval (Tallinn)
  • Russian Coast Artillery in the Harbor
    Russian Coast Artillery in the Harbor
  • View of Reval from the Northeast
    View of Reval from the Northeast
  • View of the Great Coastal Gate
    View of the Great Coastal Gate

References
  1. "Estonian Biographies",Eesti Entsüklopeediakirjastus, Tallinn 2000, ISBN 9985-70-064-3, pg.82
  2. Moonika Teemus, Ära võõrale maale, kaugetesse paikadesse. Johannes Hau (1771–1838) kosmoraama, Kuus baltisaksa kunstnikku, 2008 ISBN 978-9949-15-639-9
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