Rudolph Friedrich Wasmann (8 August 1805, Hamburg – 10 May 1886, Merano) was a German-born painter in the Biedermeier style. He spent most of his life in a part of the Tyrol that is now in Italy.
After six more years spent in Merano and Bolzano, where he worked as a portrait painter, he returned to Hamburg, where he was introduced to his future wife, Emilie Krämer. They married in 1846[1] and went to live with her step-mother back in Merano. In addition to portraits, he produced landscapes and religiously-themed works in Nazarene style as well as a popular autobiography.[1] Many of his works are on display at the Kunsthalle Hamburg. A street in the Barmbek-Nord district is named after him.
Ein deutsches Künstlerleben, von ihm selbst geschildert. Edited by Bernt Grønvold, Verlagsanstalt F. Bruckmann Aktien-Gesellschaft (1896), "Popular edition" by Insel-Verlag (1915)
Further reading
Friedrich Wasmann und vier andre deutsche Meister seiner Zeit. Ausstellungskatalog 1922. Mit einer Einführung von Hans Wolff, Hegner u. Päßler, Dresden 1922
Friedrich Wasmann, Sein Leben und Werk. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Malerei des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts von Peter Nathan, F. Bruckmann Verlag, München 1954