Carl Justus Fedeler
Carl Justus Fedeler (born November 7, 1837 in Bremen , † March 18, 1897 in Bremerhaven ) was a painter of ship pictures and draftsman for wood engraving illustrations who worked in Bremerhaven . He is easily confused with his father, the marine painter Carl Justus Harmen Fedeler , who mostly called himself Carl Justus Fedeler and signed accordingly . The son treated here, however, only used the first name Carl and usually signed with C. Fedeler . In the year of his father's death, there is an exception for at least two of the dated paintings that have been signed C. J. Fedeler .
biography
Fedeler was born in Bremen as the son of the above-mentioned, most famous Bremen marine painter. He went to sea for a while and received a technical and artistic training as a painter of ship pictures in his father's studio. After his father's death (1858), he settled in Bremerhaven in May 1860 and continued his self-taught education .
Unless signed and clearly dated, his early paintings are difficult to distinguish from those of his father. Both loved to bring the glassy transparency of deep sea waves in glazed green tones onto the canvas. Later pictures show an increasing interest in and skill in the representation of the appearance of different water surfaces and atmospheric moods.
In 1858 he began working as a supplier of eventful drawings and sketches relating to the port and shipping for the wood engraved illustrations in the illustrated magazines that are now becoming popular , such as the Illustrirten Zeitung published in Leipzig . As early as 1866, his oil paintings were also reproduced in the form of photo cards and traded as souvenirs and collector's pictures . In 1868 he painted landscapes for the furnishing of the passenger steamer Rhine of the North German Lloyd , from which Fedeler was also frequently used in the following years. A prominent commission that marked Fedeler's appreciation was the insertion of a returning three-master into the large allegorical stairwell mural by Arthur Fitger in the New Bremen Stock Exchange in Bremen from 1881. Fedeler was one of the founding members of the Bremerhaven Kunstverein, without claiming to be there Works to be represented.
Honors
- The Fedelerstraße in Bremen- Vegesack was named after him.
Collections
- Brake, Maritime Museum
- Bremen, Focke Museum
- Bremerhaven, German Maritime Museum
- Hamburg, art gallery
literature
- Arthur Fitger : Carl Fedeler (Nekrolog), in: Weser-Zeitung , Bremen, April 3, 1897
- Klaus G. Saur : General artist lexicon . Volume 37, Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2003, p. 385.
- Elke Grapenthin: Artists in and around Bremerhaven . Published by HM Hauschild GmbH Bremen 1991, pp. 108-113. ISBN 3-926598-40-9
- Biography of Bremen in the nineteenth century . Bremen 1912, (reprint Bremen 1976), p. 130 f.
- Johannes Lachs: Ships from Bremen, pictures and models in the Focke Museum . Publisher: HM Hauschild GmbH, Bremen 1994, pp. 109, 128, 130, 141, 142, 144, 149, 152, 155, 167. ISBN 3-929902-06-0
- Gert Schlechtriem : Carl Fedeler, pictures of old polar expedition ships , in: Zeitschrift Schiff & Zeit , year 1973, p. 37.
Web links
- Lars U. Scholl: Marine painting at the German Maritime Museum / An overview of 30 years of research , In: Deutsches Schifffahrtsarchiv 25, 2002, pp. 363–382
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt: Carl Fedeler auf der Spur In: Blatt No. 247 from July 1970, pp. 1–2, accessed on February 24, 2017
- ^ Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt: Painting by Carl Fedeler rediscovered In: Sheet No. 251 from November 1970, p. 3, accessed on February 24, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fedeler, Carl Justus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fedeler, Carl; Fedeler, C. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 7, 1837 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 18, 1897 |
| Place of death | Bremerhaven |