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Karl Gampeln. Deaf artist

Exhibition February 20 − May 13, 2019
The Historical Museum together with the State Museum of A.S. Pushkin holds an exhibition. "Karl Gampeln. Deaf artist"representing the work of a talented draftsman, aquarellist, painter, engraver and lithographer Karl Karlovich Gampeln and dedicated to the 225th anniversary of the artist’s birth.

A large collection of works will allow you to get acquainted with the work of the artist in all its diversity. In particular, one can see the famous 10-meter engraved panorama “A walk in Yekaterinburgoff on May 1”, a rare lithographed series of portraits, watercolor drawings. A separate exhibition hall is dedicated to the collection of genre watercolors by K. K. Hampeln from the collection of the collector A. P. Bakhrushin, belonging to the late period of the artist's work and almost not represented in Russian museums.

Karl Gampeln was born in 1794 in Moscow and was deaf from birth. A talented young man was sent to study in Vienna in a special school at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts. Returning to Moscow, under the auspices of Empress Maria Feodorovna, he became an artist and teacher. He signed his pictures with a full surname or a complex monogram, but always with the addition of “Sourd-muet”. It was the original signature “Hampeln Sourd-muet” or “Gampeln deaf-mute” that became the artist's visiting card.

Based on the materials of the official site State Historical Museum.