Carl Felber

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Carl Felber with daughter Poppy
Grave of Carl Felber in the Munich North Cemetery
Pollard willows in the moss
Farm near Dachau

Carl Friedrich Felber (born September 21, 1880 in Wädenswil , † July 14, 1932 in Dachau ) was a Swiss-German painter and etcher .

Life and artistic work

Carl Friedrich Felber studied at the Arts and Crafts School in Karlsruhe, the Académie Julian in Paris, the Hollosy School in Munich and at the Dachau Painting School with Adolf Hölzel , one of the first representatives of the Dachau artists' colony . From 1901 he lived with his German wife in the city on the Amper. Time and again Carl Felber returned to his homeland for a long time to visit his brother, the long-time mayor Ernst Felber. He captured the Swiss (winter) landscape on Lake Zurich in many of his paintings, along with landscapes from the area around Dachau. The artist, who has exhibited regularly in the Glaspalast in Munich and in Switzerland since 1906 , was a member of the Swiss graphic artists' association, Walze , to which Paul Klee , for example, also belonged.

Works by Carl Felber can be viewed in the Dachau Picture Gallery .

A street in Dachau commemorates the artist.

Artistic work

Felber was a landscape painter in the sense of the Dachau School. He preferred an open style of presentation with a broad brushstroke, sometimes with strong coloring .

Works (selection)

  • Late summer in Mitterndorf, oil / cardboard 49.5x69
  • Southern landscape, oil / canvas. 60x120
  • View of Bergkirchen, Öl / Lwd. 77x117
  • The Hüttlbad. Oil / canvas 73x93
  • Moosschwaige, oil / canvas. 69x60
  • An early winter evening in the Dachauer Moos, Öl / Lwd. 70x90
  • Self-portrait with painter's panel, oil / canvas. 34.5x59.5
  • A mild winter day on the Schleissheim Canal, color print 41.4x30.4
  • The first snow in 1930 in Dachau, oil / cardboard 47x62
  • Farm near Dachau, oil / cardboard 50x60
  • Pollard willows in the moss, lithograph 50x30

literature

  • Hannes Grobe: Carl Felber. The graphic work. Dachau 1986
  • Bruckmann's Lexicon of Munich Art. Munich painter in the 19th and 20th centuries Century, Munich 1993, pp. 230-231

Web links

Commons : Carl Felber  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bruckmanns Lexikon 1993, p. 230
personal data
SURNAME Felber, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Felber, Carl Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss-German painter and etcher
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Waedenswil
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1932
Place of death Dachau