01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #73

Franz Hünten Hamburg, 1822 - Hamburg 1887 

The W. Schernikau off Heligoland, c. 1860

Oil/canvas

50,5 x 71,5 cm

Private collection

Heligoland is a small German archipelago in the North Sea. The islands were at one time Danish and later British possessions.

The islands are located in the Heligoland Bight are in the southeastern corner of the North Sea. They are the only German islands not in the immediate vicinity of the mainland. They lie approximately 69 kilometres from Cuxhaven at the mouth of the River Elbe. More on Heligoland

Franz Johann Wilhelm Hünten (born May 2, 1822 in Hamburg , † March 2, 1887 ibid) was a German marine painter of the Düsseldorf School .

After an apprenticeship as a decorative painter, Hünten became a student of Friedrich Heimerdinger in Hamburg. Thanks to a scholarship, he attended the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf , where he was a student in the landscape class of Johann Wilhelm Schirmer in the years 1847/1848 . He was a private pupil of the slightly older Düsseldorf marine painter Hermann Mevius , with whom he went on study trips to the North Sea coast. In 1850 he returned to Hamburg. From there he undertook study trips to Scandinavia, England, Scotland, the Atlantic and the Orient. In 1887 he died in Hamburg-Eimsbüttel . More on Franz Johann Wilhelm Hünten

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