The Trumpet Players

In an original gilded wood frame size 98x80 Signed lower left M COSSMANN Hermann Maurice Cossmann (1821-1890) is a Franco-German painter and engraver of Prussian origin, who spent a large part of his career in France From 1842, Hermann Moritz Cossmann took private lessons with the painter Johann Samuel Otto (1798-1878). He then joined the Königlich Preußischen Akademie der Künste, where he exhibited regularly until 1852. During this interval, he moved to Paris to take classes with Eugène Lepoittevin. In France, he participated in the Salon from 18451 until 1885. At the beginning, he showed painted portraits and studies to French audiences. He lives in the Montmartre district. Under the Second Empire, he moved to the Madeleine district then settled on rue Saint-Georges, and began producing genre scenes by signing “Maurice Cossmann”. Naturalized French before 1859, he continued to exhibit at the Paris Salon. Died in September 1890 in Paris, he married Laure Quesney, a piano teacher; the couple had a son, who became the paleontologist Maurice Cossmann