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Family of Lorenz Herkomer and Josephine Niggl

Husband: Lorenz Herkomer

  • Name:

  • Lorenz Herkomer

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • Matthias Herkomer (1770-1843)

  • Mother:

  • Josephine Unknown ( - )

  • Note (shared):

  • Builder and wood carver.

  • Birth:

  • 1825

  • Waal, Bavaria

  • Birth fact:

  • 1825 (age 0)

  • Birth year mentioned in DNB

  • Emigration (1):

  • 1851 (age 25-26)

  • from Moved from Germany to Cleveland, Ohio

  • Emigration (2):

  • May 1857 (age 31-32)

  • from Moved from USA to England

  • Census (1):

  • 1871 (age 45-46)

  • Carver, 1 Park View, All Saints, Southampton

  • Census (2):

  • 1881 (age 55-56)

  • Artist, living with Hubert in Wales (widower)

  • Death:

  • 1888 (age 62-63)

  • Bushey, Hertfordshire

Wife: Josephine Niggl

  • Name:

  • Josephine Niggl

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • Unknown Niggl (c. 1790-1839)

  • Father:

  • -

  • Note (shared):

  • Pianist and teacher of music. Josephine Niggl was the daughter of a schoolmaster, one of a class who at that time in Germany held a position next in importance to that of the parish priest. She was a real musician herself and came of a family of musicians. A nephew of hers was a schoolmaster at Oberammergau with the task assigned to him of improving the music at the Passion Play; another nephew, had a magnificent tenor voice; and two nieces, Marie and Mathilde Wurm, were well known in the musical world, the former being the winner of a Mendelssohn scholarship in London.

  • Birth:

  • 1826

  • Denklingen, Bavaria

  • Birth fact:

  • 1826 (age 0)

  • Birth year mentioned in DNB

  • Occupation:

  • 1871 (age 44-45)

  • -; Teacher of music

  • Death:

  • 1879 (age 52-53)

  • Landsberg am Lech, Bavaria

Child 1: Hubert Herkomer

  • Name:

  • Hubert Herkomer

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse (1):

  • Anna Caroline Ida Weise (c. 1840-1883)

  • Spouse (2):

  • Eliza Louisa (Lulu) Griffiths (1849-1885)

  • Spouse (3):

  • Margaret Griffiths (c. 1854-1934)

  • Children:

  • Siegfried Hubert Herkomer (1875-1939)

  •  

  • Elsa Anna Iole Herkomer (1876-1938)

  •  

  • Lorenz Hans Herkomer (1889-1922)

  •  

  • Gwenddydd Herkomer (1893-1927)

  • Note 1:

  • Hubert Herkomer was an accomplished portrait artist, illustrator, printmaker, stage designer, filmmaker, writer and teacher. His family left Bavaria (Germany) in 1851 and lived briefly in Cleveland, Ohio, before settling in Southampton in 1857. Herkomer was a very versatile individual. He became ARA in 1879 and a full Academician in 1890. In 1899 he was ennobled by Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany, being permitted to change his name to "von Herkomer". He built a grandiose house in Bushey, Herts, named "Lululaund" after his second wife who tragically died in the aftermath of a road accident. He founded a School of Art at Bushey in 1883. He succeeded John Ruskin as Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford from 1885 to 1894. He was knighted in 1908.

    Sources: Dictionary of National Biography 1912-1921, The Grove Dictionary of Art

    www.artrenewal.org

  • Note 2:

  • VON HERKOMER Sir Hubert of Lululand Bushey Hertfordshire knight died 31 March 1914 at Matford Budleigh Salterton Devonshire. Probate London 2 June to Dame Margaret von Herkomer widow and Ernest Charles Morgan solicitor. Effects £41319 7s.

  • Birth:

  • 26 May 1849

  • Waal, Bavaria

  • Title:

  •  

  • Sir

  • Census (1):

  • 1871 (age 21-22)

  • Artist, lodging at 32 Smith Sq, Chelsea (unmarried)

  • Census (2):

  • 1881 (age 31-32)

  • Artist, 46 Penybryn, Llanllechyd, Glamorgan

  • Occupation (1):

  • btw 1885 and 1895 (age 35-46)

  • Slade Professor of Fine Art, Oxford

  • Census (3):

  • 1891 (age 41-42)

  • Artist, "Dyreham", Bushey, Herts

  • Occupation (2):

  • 14 Jun 1899 (age 50)

  • Artist, R.A. (on Elsa's marriage cert.)

  • Residence:

  • 1901 (age 51-52)

  • "Lululaund", Melbourne Rd, Bushey, Herts

  • Census (4):

  • 1911 (age 61-62)

  • Artist, Lululaund, Melbourne Road, Bushey, Watford

  • Death:

  • 31 Mar 1914 (age 64)

  • Matford, Budleigh Salterton, Devon

  • Burial:

  • 4 Apr 1914

  • Parish Church, Bushey, Herts

Note on Husband: Lorenz Herkomer - shared note

Builder and wood carver.

Note on Wife: Josephine Niggl - shared note

Pianist and teacher of music. Josephine Niggl was the daughter of a schoolmaster, one of a class who at that time in Germany held a position next in importance to that of the parish priest. She was a real musician herself and came of a family of musicians. A nephew of hers was a schoolmaster at Oberammergau with the task assigned to him of improving the music at the Passion Play; another nephew, had a magnificent tenor voice; and two nieces, Marie and Mathilde Wurm, were well known in the musical world, the former being the winner of a Mendelssohn scholarship in London.

Note on Child 1: Hubert Herkomer (1)

Hubert Herkomer was an accomplished portrait artist, illustrator, printmaker, stage designer, filmmaker, writer and teacher. His family left Bavaria (Germany) in 1851 and lived briefly in Cleveland, Ohio, before settling in Southampton in 1857. Herkomer was a very versatile individual. He became ARA in 1879 and a full Academician in 1890. In 1899 he was ennobled by Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany, being permitted to change his name to "von Herkomer". He built a grandiose house in Bushey, Herts, named "Lululaund" after his second wife who tragically died in the aftermath of a road accident. He founded a School of Art at Bushey in 1883. He succeeded John Ruskin as Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford from 1885 to 1894. He was knighted in 1908.

Sources: Dictionary of National Biography 1912-1921, The Grove Dictionary of Art

www.artrenewal.org

Note on Child 1: Hubert Herkomer (2)

VON HERKOMER Sir Hubert of Lululand Bushey Hertfordshire knight died 31 March 1914 at Matford Budleigh Salterton Devonshire. Probate London 2 June to Dame Margaret von Herkomer widow and Ernest Charles Morgan solicitor. Effects £41319 7s.