Albert Fessler

Albert Fessler , also known as Alberto Fessler , (born March 11, 1908 in Königsbach ; † March 30, 1978 ibid), was a German painter and art teacher. He lived in Germany, Venezuela and Spain .

Life

Albert Fessler moved to Pforzheim , the hometown of his father Karl Franz Fessler , when he was six . He worked as an enamel painter in his own jewelry factory on Güterstrasse. At the request of his father, Albert Fessler learned the trade of steel engraver at the age of 14 . He also studied at the Pforzheim Goldsmith School and the Pforzheim School of Applied Arts .

Albert Fessler then attended Ludwig Wilhelm Plock's private painting school in Karlsruhe . He then studied at the Karlsruhe Art Academy with Hermann Goebel and Karl Dillinger and at the Munich Art Academy with Peter Kallmann .

At the end of the 1920s, Fessler lived and worked for a short time in the Grötzingen painters' colony together with the artists Paul Rein, Karl Martin Graff, Friedrich Bach, Hugo Bickel and the artist couple Hans Winkler and Else Winkler-Dentz. In 1931 he spent three months in Paris to learn from the Old Masters in the Louvre and to consolidate his manual skills by copying the paintings. In 1932 Fessler studied at the Reial Acadèmia Catalana de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi in Barcelona . There he met Salvador Dalí , with whom he belonged to the same artists' association Circolo artistico . The pictures of this period were based on the academic models and the late impressionists. Fessler left Spain in 1936 and moved to Munich .

At the beginning of 1939 Albert Fessler lived and worked in Lucerne , Switzerland. There he lived on Mariahilfgasse in a small attic room in modest circumstances. During the Second World War he documented the horrors and effects of the war with his pictures. Fessler taught at the Munich Art Academy from 1945 to 1948. One of his students was the painter and graphic artist Helmuth Volkwein (1920–2004).

In 1948 Albert Fessler emigrated to South America. From 1954 to 1956 he was a lecturer at the Art Academy in Caracas , Venezuela. He then returned to Germany and lived in Königsbach (Baden) and in Spain. Fessler was friends with the Pforzheim painter and photographer Gertrude Offner (1921–2008), whom he portrayed as a young woman. In 1957 Albert Fessler set up a sunny studio in an old fisherman's house in Selva de Mar , next to Salvador Dali's Cantina de Fiesta . Albert Fessler and his family lived exclusively there between 1971 and 1974. Many of his oil paintings depict scenes from the Selva de Mar area, particularly Cadaques. A small street in Cadaques that runs along the sea, an archway and a striking balcony adorn several of his pictures, some alone, some in combination. Health problems prompted him to return to Königsbach in 1974. In the last years of his life Albert Fessler also worked as an art teacher for senior citizens.

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Albert Fessler's work includes still lifes , portraits ( woman from Madrid exhibited in 1940 at the Great German Art Exhibition in Munich) and landscapes, as well as impressions of rural ports on the Mediterranean. In 1944 he created a series of paintings showing the burning and destroyed Munich, interpreted as acts of terrorism by the Allies.

His works are exhibited in the Diözesanmuseum Freising , including the ruins of the Liebfrauendom (1944). In the Munich City Museum you can see the Munich Central Station (before 1944); Inside of the Frauenkirche , the Odeonsplatz , the Army Museum , the Old Town Hall , the Siegestor , the burning Munich with a view of the Karlstor (all oil, all after the destruction in 1944).

The oil painting Motorized German Troops by Albert Fessler is on display in the Army History Museum in Vienna in Hall VII .

Exhibitions

• 2019: Pforzheim, brasserie and gallery in Kaufland
• 2018: Pforzheim, brasserie and gallery in Kaufland
• 1988: Pforzheim-Brötzingen, local history museum of the old rectory
• 1982: Pforzheim, New Town Hall entrance hall
• 1977: Caracas, Venezuela, Galeria de arte sans souci
• 1966: Munich, Galerie Schumacher
• 1961: Krefeld, Steinbach Gallery
• 1944: Munich, House of German Art - German Art Exhibition, with a painting

Web links

• www.albert-fessler.gallery