HILDEBRANDT, hil'de-briint. EDUARD ( 181S 68). A German landscape and marine painter. Ile was born at Danzig, September 9, 1818, the son of a house-painter. Ile traveled extensive ly, and was celebrated for his paintings of striking points of view, such as would interest the traveling public. As a lad he wished to be a sailor. but his father apprenticed him to the painter Meyerheim He studied under Krause in Berlin, and under Isabey in Paris, in 1841. In 1843 lie gained a gold medal in that city. and was invited by Humboldt to visit Brazil. The water-colors and oil paintings he made while there are now in the possession of the Germaa Emperor. Hildebrandt visited the Canary Isl ands, Spain, and Portugal, and brought from those places two hundred water-colors of vari ous subjects, also in the Emperor's possession. In 1851, by order of the King of Prussia. lie went to Italy, Malta. Egypt, Palestine, Turkey, and Greece. and later traveled through Switzer land. In 1855 he was made professor and mem ber of the Berlin Academy. and in 1856 he joined an Arctic expedition, as the result of which, at Brussels in 185S. he obtained the gold medal for his Cape." painted while on that expedi tion. At Amsterdam he was given another gold
medal for his "sea of Marmora." between I titi:2 and 1861 he traveled around the world, and brought home four hundred water-colors. \Odell were exhibited in London in 1866. Among his works are: "Brazilian Primeval Forest," "Cave at Stalfa" I 1865 ) , "Cast le Kronhorg" ( 1857 ) . in the National Gallery, Berlin: "Moonrise in Madeira," t'orcoran Gallery, Washington; "The Bay of Naples," Metropolitan Museum, York; "ily the Dead Sea," "Beinins at Early Dawn," "Evening in Siam." and many others. Ills last work, "Under the Equator." a study of the ocean, popularly called "Das Mane Wunder" (the blue wonder), was the occasion of much argument and imitation. His paintings are not without technical merit. especially in color, but the painter of 'striking views' is never the great artist. ilis aquarelles excel his oil paint ings. lie died in Berlin, t)ctober 25. 1868. Con sult: his Mcisc unt die /•;rrie ( Voyage Around the World). edited by Ernst Icossak (Berlin, 1857) Arndt. Eduard lklre brawn, der Maier des Kosmos 1$691: Bruno Aleyer, Studien unit liriliken (Stuttgart, 1877).