Career
Hammer began his studies in 1794 at the Dresden University of Visual Arts. Four years later he had become the senior apprentice of Johann Phillip Veith, who himself had learned landscape drawing and copper etching from Adrian Zingg at the same establishment. In 1816 Hammer became an academy member, joining the famous circle of Dresden Romanticism, accompanying the likes of Caspar David Friedrich and Johann Christian Klengel.
In 1829 he was appointed as Professor extraordinarius.
A great admirer of C. G. Hammer"s works was Johann Wolfgang Goethe. He and Hammer met in the artist"s Dresden studio during Goethe"s stay in the town during 1810.
Albertina, Vienna, a set of Hammer"s works collected by Duke Albert of Saxe-Teschen. Dresden City Museum. Goethe National Museum, Weimar.
Lübbenau castle. Dresden State Art Collections.
