Arthur Feudel

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Arthur Feudel
Arthur Feudel

Arthur Feudel (born March 27, 1857 in Harthau near Chemnitz , † January 15, 1929 in Katwijk , Netherlands ) was a German - American portrait and landscape painter .

life and work

Feudel was the eldest child of Eduard Feudel, who worked as an accountant and later authorized signatory in the Chemnitz iron foundry Richter, and Soergel, born Juliane Wilhelmine. With his two years younger sister Flora and three years younger brother Constantin , who also became a painter, the family lived in Harthau until 1871, where he attended elementary school. From 1869 to 1871 he attended the municipal secondary school in Chemnitz . The family moved to Meißen in 1871 , where the father went into business for himself by founding a laundry. From 1871 he started an apprenticeship at the Meissen porcelain factory . He then studied from 1877 at the Art Academy in Munich with Gyula Benczúr and Ludwig von Löfftz and two years later at the Art Academy in Dresden with Fedor Flinzer .

Feudel married Katharina Merkel in 1880. From 1883 to 1885 he traveled to Leipzig, Berlin and Paris.

In 1885 he moved to the United States of America , where he settled in New York as a painter and illustrator. There Feudel achieved reputation and prosperity as a flower painter and portraitist. He exhibited his work at the Chicago Art Institute , the Boston Art Club , the National Academy of Design and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, among others .

In 1886 his first wife died and in 1891 he married the painter Alma Leila Wright. In 1892 he became an American citizen.

In 1902 he moved to Katwijk in Holland and became a member of the Arti et Amicitiae Society in Amsterdam. Feudel became known for his watercolors of coasts and landscapes in the Netherlands and the United States.

Commemoration

In the Chemnitz district of Harthau, Feudelstraße is reminiscent of the native Harthauer. On the occasion of Arthur Feudel's 150th birthday, the exhibition In the Foreign Famous - Forgotten in the Home was opened in the Harthauer Old Church with 20 of his paintings.

literature

  • Feudel, Arthur . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 11 : Erman-Fiorenzo . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1915, p. 512 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
  • Christine Rohrschneider: Feudel, Arthur . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 39, Saur, Munich a. a. 2004, ISBN 3-598-22779-5 , p. 251.
  • Jördis Lademann (ed.): Arthur Feudel (1857–1929). Commemorative exhibition for the 150th birthday; Paintings, watercolors, drawings. Harthau home collection, working group in the Chemnitzer Geschichtsverein eV, Chemnitz 2007.
  • Manfred Walther: Arthur Feudel. Pictures of an exhibition; in honor of the artist's 150th birthday. Harthau home collection, Chemnitz 2007.
  • Manfred Walther: Arthur Freudel. A life in pictures; for the artist's 150th birthday. Harthau home collection, Chemnitz 2007.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Entry in the matriculation book .
personal data
SURNAME Feudel, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Harthau near Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1929
Place of death Katwijk , Netherlands