Aloys Fellmann

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Aloys Fellmann (born January 11, 1855 in Oberkirch ; † March 9, 1892 in Düsseldorf ) was a Swiss painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Aloys Fellmann was a son of the farmer and member of the Grand Council Dominik Fellmann from the farm "Wiberlist" in the canton of Lucerne . After completing primary school , Aloys Fellmann attended the Progymnasium in Sursee from 1868 , where he received his first artistic training from the drawing teacher Franz Sales Amlehn . From 1872 he went to the studio of the Stans painter Karl Georg Kaiser and from 1874 to the drawing school in Lucerne, which was directed by Seraphin Weingartner . In 1875 Fellmann moved to the Düsseldorf Art Academy , where he studied under Eduard Gebhardt and Wilhelm Sohn and from the winter of 1878/1879 became a master student at the Sohnsche School. He worked in his studio in the Wunderbau on Pempelforter Straße 80. During this time, his only religious picture of Saint Joseph with the Christ Child was created .

In 1879 he married Katharina Josefina, née Döhmer, from Düsseldorf. Fellmann joined the artists' association Malkasten as a member . There he made friends with the Swiss painter Hans Bachmann . Adolph Tidemand portrayed Aloys Fellmann, and the picture was exhibited in the Kunsthalle in July 1898 for the anniversary exhibition of the “Malkastens” .

With his first large genre painting The Last Honor at the Funeral in the Canton of Lucerne , which he completed in 1882 under Wilhelm Sohn, he successfully went public, and the sale of the picture in 1884 to the Grand Ducal Picture Gallery in Karlsruhe established his reputation as an important painter. This was followed by participation in art exhibitions in Berlin , Düsseldorf and Dresden , and frequent trips took him to Switzerland, where he took part in regular exhibitions .

From 1887 he had his own studio on Inselstraße 10 at Hofgarten .

Aloys Fellmann in the catalog Gemäldegalerie Dresden 1899, painting "The vow of a Benedictine monk"

His main work is The Vow of a Benedictine Monk , the depiction of the taking of the vows when a young Benedictine monk is accepted into the order, which he completed in 1888 and which was acquired by the Gemäldegalerie in Dresden under Karl Woermann .

Aloys Fellmann died in March 1892 at the age of 37 as a result of an illness of the flu.

In 1896, the Gottfried Keller Foundation commission acquired two etchings and two pencil drawings from the estate of Aloys Fellman: two heads depicting The Last Honor , a portrait of Joggi Waser and a study of the funeral . The Museum of Art Lucerne was the end of 1945 in the exhibition "genre painting of the XIX. Century of the Düsseldorf direction “Works by Aloys Fellmann.

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Aloys Fellmann was mainly a portrait and genre painter . He was also one of the few who began to paint their pictures outdoors at an early age, which earned him the accusation that his coloring was harsh and dry. The characteristics of Fellmann's works are those of a draftsman who showed an intensive study of nature and closeness to the people with realism and coloring.

“Fellmann, who is much less eye-catching than [Hans] Bachmann, is particularly noticeable through the portraits, where he achieves remarkable things despite extensive use of photography as an aid. Occasionally he also succeeds in real moral images, namely where he does not get stuck in the episodic and graceful, but advances to the deeply human, to the description in the sense of Pestalozzi and Gotthelf . "

- Hp. L .: Three popular Lucerne painters - Josef Zelger

Works

  • Saint Joseph with the Christ Child , in the Parish Church of Sursee
  • The last honor , 1882
  • Little country girl with elderberry bouquet , 1884
  • The Vow , 1888
  • Palm Sunday , 1892
  • Illustrations in Un petit-fils de Robinson by Philibert Audebrand (1815–1906)

literature

  • Michael Schnyder: Aloys Fellman, painter (1855-1892). Artist Society, Zurich 1893, p. 27.
  • Fellmann, Aloys . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume I, Dresden 1895, p. 293.
  • Yves Jolidon: Painter Aloys Fellmann: “Among the greats of art, one of the very greatest”. Sursee 1993.
  • Carl Brun: Swiss artist lexicon . I. Volume AG. Huber, Frauenfeld 1905, p. 451.
  • Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918. Volume 1: Abbema – Gurlitt. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7654-3009-9 .
  • Dictionnaire Bénézit, 1999.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. † Former Rigibahndirector Joseph Fellmann, Vitznau (Fellmann family from the “Wiberlist” farm in Oberkirch). In: Swiss journal for surveying and cultural technology. Issue 3, 1930 (archived in the E-Periodica of ETH Zurich ).
  2. ↑ Celebrations of honor and pleasure. Artist festivals of the 19th and early 20th centuries ( Memento from April 9, 2019 in the Internet Archive ). Artists' Association Malkasten (catalog for the exhibition of the StadtMuseum Bonn).
  3. ^ Paul Halber: H. Bachmann, A. Fellmann, F. Stirnimann, Jos. Zelter. Lucerne Art Museum, 1945.
  4. ^ Catalog for the anniversary exhibition of the "Malkastens" on the occasion of its 50th foundation festival on July 2nd and 3rd, 1898 in the Kunsthalle zu Düsseldorf Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf.
  5. ^ Painter Aloys Fellmann, Inselstrasse 10 , address book of the Lord Mayor's Office in Düsseldorf 1887.
  6. ^ Painter Aloys Fellmann, Inselstr. 10, Düsseldorf , address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf 1889.
  7. deaths. † Fellmann. In: Art Chronicle. Weekly for arts and crafts. Issue 1, October 15, 1891, Col. 314.
  8. On the pious memory of the painter Aloys Fellmann ( Memento from December 4, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). Portrait archive of the Central Swiss Society for Family Research (obituary notice with portrait).
  9. From the negotiations of Switzerland. Federal Council (works of art by Fellmann acquired by the commission of the Gottfried Keller Foundation).
  10. Hans Bachmann, Alois Fellmann, Friedrich Stirnimann. Genre painting of the XIX. Century of the Düsseldorf direction. Kunstmuseum Luzern (archive), list of exhibitions (exhibition October 7 to November 25, 1945).
  11. Hp. L .: Three popular Lucerne painters - Josef Zelger. Art Museum, October 7th to November 25th 1945. In: Das Werk. Issue 1, January 1946 (archived in the E-Periodica of ETH Zurich).
  12. Philibert Audebrand: Un petit-fils de Robinson . With illustrations by Aloys Fellmann. Théodor Lefèvre, Paris 1878 ( digitized on Gallica ).
  13. ^ Aloys Fellmann in the Swiss Artist Lexicon .