Born about 1887 in Bendigo, Originally a farmer, Hampel brilliantly able, was mainly self-taught and briefly studied under Max Meldrum in Melbourne.
Hampel won fame for his Mallee landscapes later moving to live in London where Queen Mary bought one of his still life’s at his first Bond St Exhibition.
Many works by the artist have been sold at auction including ‘The little white bench’ sold at Christie’s Amsterdam ‘A European Corporate Collection’ in 2012.
Hampel was a founding member of the society of 20 Melbourne Painters.
He and his wife Bertha and son Kim age 12 were killed when a large bomb wrecked their 3 storey Hampstead London Home in an air raid in September 1940
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