Kassel Art Academy (1782-92)
1792 - moves to Rome
1799 - returns to Kassel; moves to Berlin
1809 - appointed professor of Perspective, Architecture, and Optics at Berlin Art Academy
1840 - publishes study of Vitruvius (Die Säuleordnung nach Vitruv)
Italy/Rome (1792-99)
Schloss Wilhelmshöhe with the Habichts Forest, Kassel, c. 1800 (Neue Galerie, Kassel)
Chess Players, 1818-19 (Nationalgalerie, Berlin)
Morton, Marsha L. “Johann Erdmann Hummel and the Flemish Primitives: The Forging of a Biedermeier Style,” Zeitschift für Kunstgeschichte, vol. 52, no. 1 (1989): 46-67
Norman, Geraldine. Biedermeier Painting, 1815-1848: Reality Observed in Genre, Portrait, and Landscape. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1987
Ozeki, Miyuki. Die Rolle der Perspktive in der Kunst Johann Erdmann Hummels. Dissertation. Berlin: Freie Universität, 2002 (in German)