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[[File:Ungern-Sternberg-Hau.jpg|thumb|200px|Johannes Hau; portrait by (1807)]]
'''Johannes Hau''' (17 April 1771, [[Flensburg]] - 3 August 1838, [[Reval]]) was a [[Baltic-German]] landscape painter.
== Life and work ==
His father, Jens Petersen Hau, was a ship's Captain. In 1795, he left his hometown and moved to Tallinn (Reval, in German). There, he became a Master Painter and by 1806, he was serving as an (a type of administrative official) with the . From 1818 until his death, he was the guild's Chairman.
He is best remembered for his small-scale [[vedute]] of Reval and [[Narva]]; done in [[gouache]]. These were very popular with upper class people from St. Petersburg, who came to visit the city's spas.<ref>"Estonian Biographies",''Eesti Entsüklopeediakirjastus'', Tallinn 2000, ISBN 9985-70-064-3, pg.82</ref> In 1823, he organized an exhibition at his home, which was one of the first solo exhibitions of any type held in Reval.<ref>Moonika Teemus, ''Ära võõrale maale, kaugetesse paikadesse. Johannes Hau (1771–1838) kosmoraama'', Kuus baltisaksa kunstnikku, 2008 ISBN 978-9949-15-639-9</ref>
He was interred at the [[Kopli cemetery]], which was destroyed in the 1940s, during the second [[Soviet occupation of the Baltic states (1944)|Soviet occupation of the Baltic states]].
His two sons, [[Eduard Hau|Eduard]] and [[Woldemar Hau]], also became well known painters.
==Views of Reval (Tallinn)==
<gallery mode=packed heights=200>
File:Hau-Artillery.jpg|Russian Coast Artillery in the Harbor
File:Hau-Reval.jpg|View of Reval from the Northeast
File:Hau-Gate.jpg|View of the Great Coastal Gate
</gallery>
==References==
== External links ==
* [[Baltische Historische Kommission]], [https://ift.tt/36kP08P entry for Johannes Hau]. In: Baltisches Biografisches Lexikon Digital
* [https://ift.tt/364EiDd More works by Johannes Hau] @ the [[Art Museum of Estonia]], Digital Collection.
[[Category:1771 births]]
[[Category:1838 deaths]]
[[Category:Baltic-German people]]
[[Category:German painters]]
[[Category:Estonian painters]]
[[Category:Landscape painters]]
[[Category:People from Flensburg]]
'''Johannes Hau''' (17 April 1771, [[Flensburg]] - 3 August 1838, [[Reval]]) was a [[Baltic-German]] landscape painter.
== Life and work ==
His father, Jens Petersen Hau, was a ship's Captain. In 1795, he left his hometown and moved to Tallinn (Reval, in German). There, he became a Master Painter and by 1806, he was serving as an (a type of administrative official) with the . From 1818 until his death, he was the guild's Chairman.
He is best remembered for his small-scale [[vedute]] of Reval and [[Narva]]; done in [[gouache]]. These were very popular with upper class people from St. Petersburg, who came to visit the city's spas.<ref>"Estonian Biographies",''Eesti Entsüklopeediakirjastus'', Tallinn 2000, ISBN 9985-70-064-3, pg.82</ref> In 1823, he organized an exhibition at his home, which was one of the first solo exhibitions of any type held in Reval.<ref>Moonika Teemus, ''Ära võõrale maale, kaugetesse paikadesse. Johannes Hau (1771–1838) kosmoraama'', Kuus baltisaksa kunstnikku, 2008 ISBN 978-9949-15-639-9</ref>
He was interred at the [[Kopli cemetery]], which was destroyed in the 1940s, during the second [[Soviet occupation of the Baltic states (1944)|Soviet occupation of the Baltic states]].
His two sons, [[Eduard Hau|Eduard]] and [[Woldemar Hau]], also became well known painters.
==Views of Reval (Tallinn)==
<gallery mode=packed heights=200>
File:Hau-Artillery.jpg|Russian Coast Artillery in the Harbor
File:Hau-Reval.jpg|View of Reval from the Northeast
File:Hau-Gate.jpg|View of the Great Coastal Gate
</gallery>
==References==
== External links ==
* [[Baltische Historische Kommission]], [https://ift.tt/36kP08P entry for Johannes Hau]. In: Baltisches Biografisches Lexikon Digital
* [https://ift.tt/364EiDd More works by Johannes Hau] @ the [[Art Museum of Estonia]], Digital Collection.
[[Category:1771 births]]
[[Category:1838 deaths]]
[[Category:Baltic-German people]]
[[Category:German painters]]
[[Category:Estonian painters]]
[[Category:Landscape painters]]
[[Category:People from Flensburg]]
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