{{Short description|German painter, illustrator and caricaturist}} thumb|200px|Hermann Scherenberg (1896) '''Hermann Scherenberg''' (20 January 1826, Swinemünde - 21 August 1897, Berlin) was a German painter, illustrator and caricaturist.
==Biography== According to Theodor Fontane, who knew the Scherenbergs and wrote about them in his autobiography,<ref>Theodor Fontane: ''Meine Kinderjahre. Autobiographischer Roman''. 4th Ed. Berlin 1903. pps. 112–116.</ref> the family originally came from Westphalia and his father, Johann Friedrich Scherenberg, lived in the Huguenot colony in Swinemünde. Hermann was born to Johann's second wife. His older half-brother was the poet, {{ill|Christian Friedrich Scherenberg|de}}. He was also related to the poet and journalist, {{ill|Ernst Scherenberg|de}}.
From 1846 to 1847, he studied painting at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, under the tutelage of Theodor Hildebrandt.<ref>Museum Kunstpalast: ''Künstler und Künstlerinnen der Düsseldorfer Malerschule'' ([https://www.kunstpalast.de/uploads/pdf/Knstlerliste-der-Dsseldorfer-Malerschule.pdf PDF] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507173302/https://www.kunstpalast.de/uploads/pdf/Knstlerliste-der-Dsseldorfer-Malerschule.pdf |date=2021-05-07 }})</ref>
For many years, he was an employee of the ''Illustrirte Zeitung'', providing hundreds of illustrations. He drew portraits of prominent personalities and major events from Prussian and German history as well as scenes from everyday life.
He had one son, Hans, who apparently also became a painter, although no further information is available.
He was interred at the {{ill|Luisenstädtischer Friedhof|de}} in Berlin. The gravesite has not been preserved.<ref>Hans-Jürgen Mende: ''Lexikon Berliner Grabstätten''. Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. pg.83.</ref>
== Selected works == <gallery mode=packed heights=170> Landung Gr Kurfürst auf Rügen (H Scherenberg n Kretzschmer IZ 40).jpg|The Great Elector Landing on Rügen Berlin Stadtschloss Basar f Ostpreußen 1868 (IZ 50 H Scherenberg).JPG|Benefit Bazaar at the Berlin Palace Berliner Volksküche 1868 (IZ 51 H Scherenberg).jpg|A Soup Kitchen in Berlin (1868) Berlin Heimkehr d Heeres 16-06-1871 (H Scherenberg IZ 57).jpg|Return of the Victorious Army (1871) </gallery>
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== External links == {{Commons category|Hermann Scherenberg}} * [http://www.comicforschung.de/vorkrieg/vorkrieg_dtbilderbogen.html Deutsche Bilderbogen] * [http://www.payer.de/religionskritik/karikaturen36.htm Three Anti-clerical caricatures] from ''Ulk'' * [http://heidicon.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/pool/fb/search/Hermann%20Scherenberg Hermann Scherenberg in HeidICON], Illustrations from the ''Fliegende Blätter''
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Scherenberg, Hermann}} Category:1826 births Category:1897 deaths Category:19th-century German painters Category:19th-century German male artists Category:German illustrators Category:German caricaturists Category:Kunstakademie Düsseldorf alumni Category:People from Świnoujście