Carl Friedrich Fechhelm

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Carl Friedrich Fechhelm (* 1723 in Dresden ; † November 25, 1785 in Berlin ) was a German painter and set designer . He was one of the most important artists of the Frederician Rococo .

Life

Set design:
Montezuma , 3rd act
City view:
Unter den Linden Berlin, around 1770
Room equipment:
Festsaal Ermelerhaus

Carl Friedrich Fechhelm was the eldest of four brothers who worked as painters and which he also taught ( Christian Gottlieb Fechhelm (1732-1816), Georg Friedrich Fechhelm (* 1740) and Carl Traugott Fechhelm (* 1748)). He himself learned the art of painting and drawing under Adam Friedrich Oeser in Dresden and Franz Müller in Prague . He stayed in Prague, Dresden and Vienna , where he was a student of Giuseppe Galli da Bibiena . With him he finally settled in Berlin in 1754.

Here he was appointed royal Prussian court theater painter in 1756. In addition to his work as a stage painter, he mainly created fresco paintings . For the opera theater and the palaces in Potsdam , Charlottenburg and Rheinsberg as well as the Berlin Ermelerhaus he decorated various rooms with paintings, possibly also for the manor house Groß Kreutz (Havel) . Murals and lintels from the Ermelerhaus located since 1966 in the Märkisches Museum . But some cityscapes of Berlin, painted in oil, have also survived.

In 1764 he became an honorary member of the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts and Mechanical Sciences . One of his students was the painter Johann Georg Rosenberg .

Works (selection)

  • Unter den Linden, Berlin
  • Gendarmenmarkt, Berlin
  • View of the New Market with St. Marienkirche, Berlin.

literature

Carl Friedrich Fechhelm . In: Magazine of Saxon History to the year 1788 p. 557 (digitized version)

Web links

Commons : Carl Friedrich Fechhelm  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. There is also the indication 1725
  2. ^ Helmut Börsch-Supan : Brandenburg and Saxony - The tensions in art life under Frederick the Great . In Frank Göse (Hrsg.): Friedrich der Grosse and the Mark Brandenburg: Herrschaftspraxis in der Provinz , Lukas-Verlag 2012, ISBN 978-3-86732-138-9 . P. 30 (digitized version)
  3. Prof. Dr. Hans Kania: The manor house of Groß-Kreutz , Märkischer Heimatkalender for the Zauche from 1928, p. 34-38