PRELL, prel, Hermann, German painter and sculptor: b. Leipzig, 29 April 1854. He studied at Dresden and Berlin under Grosse and Gussow respectively, supplementing this by a course of study in fresco painting in Italy. He soon became one of the foremost German fresco painters of historical subjects. Return ing home he was commissioned to paint the frescoes in the banquet hall of the House of Architects, in Berlin, and for this hall he executed in 1881-82 a series of 11 paintings on the 'Main Epochs of the History of Archi tecture) His other mural paintings are to be found in the City Hall of Worms 'Valor) and 'Henry IV Granting Privileges to Worms in 1074,' painted in 1884) ; the City Hall of Hildesheim (1887-81) • City Hall of Dantzic (1892) ; the Breslau Museum (1893 94) ; Palazzo Caffarelli in Rome (1895-98) ; the Albertinum, Dresden (1901-05) ; the City Hall of Dresden (1908-12); sculptures by him are in the new Dresden City Hall and in the Albertinum, Dresden. He has also done some
mosaics in the Cotton Exchange and in the North German Lloyd Building in Bremen (1911), and in the Staendehaus in Dresden (1907). The Dresden Gallery and the Breslau Museum contain specimens of his easel pictures. He has taught in the academies of Berlin and Dresden. In 1893 he received the Great Gold Medal at the Berlin Exhibition. He has pub lished 'Die Fresken im Rathause zu Hildesheim' (Hildesheim 1894). Consult Ianitsch, Fresken im Treppenhause des Schlesischen Museums der Bildenden Kuenste) (Berlin 1895) ; Meissner, F. H., 'Hermann Prell' (Wien 1897) ; Rosenberg, A., 'Hermann (in 'Kuenstler Monographien,> Vol. LIII, Leipzig 1901).