Carl Otto Fey
Carl Otto Fey (* 1894 in Düsseldorf , † 1971 in Altenkirchen ) was a hunting and animal painter and draftsman from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
His father was Ernst Fey, a well-known church restorer at the time, as well as an employee and advisor to the Prussian building administration. After attending the municipal reform high school on Rethelstrasse , he learned to paint from Alfons Peerboom (1877-1959), a Dutch still life and interior painter who lived in Düsseldorf. In 1918 he moved to the Netherlands and from there to France, both countries being preferred painting locations for German Impressionists. In 1940 he returned to Düsseldorf due to the war. In Berlin he created with his father for 1942, rebuilt after an air raid Berlin State Opera , the Apollo dedicated ceiling paintings and illustrations of the nine muses over the auditorium. After his house was destroyed, he settled in Altenkirchen in the Westerwald in 1943.
After 1945, Carl Otto Fey turned to hunting motifs and became known around the world for this genre. Fey undertook study trips to France, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Holland, Belgium, England and Switzerland. He had individual and exhibition participations in Berlin, Bielefeld, Dresden, Dusseldorf, Munich, Hanover, Krakow, Koblenz, Luxembourg, Prague and Vienna.
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With his branch in Altenkirchen at the latest, Fey turned to hunting motifs. The Westerwald provided inspiration, in some cases other low mountain ranges in Germany. The game and its habitat in the forest and in clearings are his main motif. The direct experience of nature, the open air painting and the impasto application of paint show parallels to impressionism and animal painting .
In his early work there were also works with depictions of the navy, landscapes and portraits. Fey also experimented with depictions of aquariums. He signed his works with CO FEY .
Individual works
- Kaiser Wilhelm , oil on canvas
- Small steamboat , oil on canvas
- Beilstein an der Mosel , oil on canvas
- Landscape with a mill near Zaandam , oil on canvas, 41 × 30.5 cm (painted in Düsseldorf)
- Lower Rhine. Backwater
- Wild boar in the snow , oil on painting board, 60 x 50 cm
- Autumn break in hunting , oil on painting board, 60 x 50 cm
- Im Revier , oil on painting board, 24 x 18 cm
- Two pairs of pheasants in a wide clearing in the moor , oil on painting board, 18 x 24 cm
- Fish , oil on painting board, 56 x 55 cm
Reception of his work
When Franz-Josef Wuermeling was briefly mayor of the city of Linz am Rhein in 1945 as a member of the board of Basalt AG , he had paintings by Fey hung in the town hall. Later it was later taken to Bonn, but returned to the town hall on loan in 2005. In 1954, the Ministry of Culture of North Rhine-Westphalia acquired a work by Fey for the first time. In the 1950s and 1960s, works by Fey (as a sign of a closeness to home and nature) hung in numerous boardrooms.
- 1954: Honorary award from the Ministry of Culture in North Rhine-Westphalia
- 1954: Culture Prize of the German Hunting Association
- 1963: Silver medal at the German Hunting Exhibition
Web links
- Carl Otto Fey , biography in the portal kunsthalle-altenkirchen.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Birth and death dates according to the population register of the city of Düsseldorf: * March 22, 1877 in Eysden / Netherlands; † August 14, 1959 in Düsseldorf-Oberkassel
- ↑ Erich Meffert: The house of the State Opera and its new design . Max Beck, Leipzig 1944, plates 30, 30a.
- ↑ http://www.linz.de/html2005/deutsch/presmit/347.html www.linz.de Accessed April 22, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fey, Carl Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and draftsman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1971 |
| Place of death | Altenkirchen |