Carl Justus Harmen Fedeler
Carl Justus Harmen Fedeler (born January 25, 1799 in Bremen ; † January 23, 1858 ibid), who often called himself just Carl Justus Fedeler and accordingly signed C. I. Fedeler , was a German painter of ships in Bremen and Bremerhaven . His son Carl Justus Fedeler , who was often mistaken for him , called himself Carl Fedeler and usually signed C. Fedeler , was also a marine painter here .
Life
Little is known about the origins and youth of the older Fedeler, a stay with a Hamburg master painter is mentioned, otherwise his development as a painter was largely self-taught . He can be traced back to Bremen around 1830, because from 1832 until his death he was listed in the Bremen address book as a “drawing teacher, portrait and marine painter”. Here he exhibited repeatedly in the art gallery between 1833 and 1856 .
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While Fedeler probably also painted portraits and landscapes at first, he soon devoted himself only to ship portraits, a genre popular in Bremen and Bremerhaven. From the mid-1830s, the number of his pictures secured by signatures increased significantly. During this time he perfected his skill in characterizing water surfaces with often somewhat translucent waves crowned by narrow foam fringes in very different ways and making them lively with sunny spots. Around 1846/49, perhaps under the influence of the Dutch Anthonie Braakman , who worked in Bremen around 1841/43 , the earlier preference for dramatic cloud landscapes in favor of a Biedermeier warm light is lost. All of his ship pictures, however, are characterized by precise knowledge of rigging and wave formations (both of which, however, are occasionally spoiled by improper cleaning and painting over). He likes to choose the backdrop of Bremen or Bremerhaven as the background. His work is not limited to the simple captain's picture , in which a single ship seen from the side is portrayed; when it came to summarizing the dramatic scenery of a whaling event, the fleet of a shipping company or the latest productions of a shipyard, it was Fedeler who was commissioned in Bremen. Not all of his works are signed. Around 1850 its production seems to have slowed down. It cannot be ruled out whether his son, who he trained as a marine painter, was also involved in the paintings of his last years.
His graphic oeuvre , as far as we know it today, is minimal: it is limited to two colored outline etchings with views of the Weser near Bremen, around 1830/33. He did not lithograph himself; Beuermann, G. Michaelis and others probably made graphic reproductions from his paintings.
Collections
- Bremen, Focke Museum , around 15 signed and dated oil paintings
- Schönebeck Castle Local History Museum
- Bremerhaven, German Maritime Museum
literature
- Bremen biography of the 19th century . Bremen 1912, (reprint Bremen 1976), p. 130 f.
- Johannes Lachs: Ships from Bremen, pictures and models in the Focke Museum . Bremen undated [1974], with 14 illustrations on pp. 56–106.
- Saur: General artist lexicon . Volume 37, Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2003, p. 386.
- Elke Grapenthin: Artists in and around Bremerhaven . Bremen 1991, p. 59 f.
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- ↑ Contrary information in the handbooks of Saur, Schwarzwälder and Grapenthin did not stand up to an examination in the holdings of the Focke-Museum.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fedeler, Carl Justus Harmen |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fedeler, Carl Justus; Fedeler, CI |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 25, 1799 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 23, 1858 |
| Place of death | Bremen |