Carl Traugott Fechhelm

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Berlin Palace on the Spree 1768
The Riga market square with the weighing house in 1816

Carl Traugott Fechhelm (* 1748 in Dresden , † 1819 in Riga ) was a German landscape and vedute painter , fresco artist and set designer .

He was the youngest brother of Carl Friedrich Fechhelm (1723–1785), who gave him his first painting lessons

Carl Traugott Fechhelm studied at the Prussian Academy of Arts . After graduating, he worked on landscape and vedute painting. He became a full member of the Berlin Academy and took part in the Academy exhibitions in 1786, 1789 and 1791.

Together with Asmus Carstens he created the frescoes “Apollo and the Muses” in the Dorvillisches Haus on Pariser Platz from 1790 on behalf of Minister Friedrich Anton von Heynitz .

In 1797 he settled in Riga. He created sets for the theater there. From 1811 he also created cityscapes of Riga.

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