Eduard Clemens Fechner

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Eduard (Edouard) Clemens Fechner (born August 21, 1799 in Groß Särchen in Niederlausitz , † February 7, 1861 in Paris ) was a German painter , graphic artist and miniaturist who worked and lived in France from 1826.

Life

The former rectory in Żarki Wielkie ( Groß Särchen ), where Fechner spent the first seven years of his life

Fechner was born in Groß Särchen, east of the Lusatian Neisse , in Lower Lusatia, which was then part of the Electorate of Saxony . He was the son of the Protestant pastor Samuel Traugott Fechner (1765-1806) and his wife Johanna Dorothea nee Fischer (1774-1859). The father, who came from a local pastor's family, studied in Halle and Wittenberg and was very progressive. After several lightning strikes, he had the first lightning rod attached to the church tower in the village, had his children vaccinated and did not wear a wig to the sermon. After the father's death, the mother and five children moved to the neighboring town of Triebel . A short time later, the mother's brother , Gottlob Eusebius Fischer (1767 / 1769–1847) from Golßen , who was then a Protestant archdeacon of Wurzen , took in Fechner and his younger brother. Four years later, the Fechner brothers moved with him to Ranis , where they befriended the son Ludwig Franz von Breitenbauch of the lord of the castle von Ranis. Eduard Fechner visited Breitenbauch in Ranis several times later. Both brothers were confirmed in Ranis in 1814 . In the same year Fechner went to the art academy in Dresden and studied with Josef Mathias Grassi and from 1816-1818 with Moritz Retzsch . In 1820 he continued his training under Joseph Karl Stieler in Munich . He worked temporarily for the Duke of Leuchtenberg . In 1826 he turned to Paris and settled there. He lived first at 10 rue Neuve-Saint-Georges (now the 9th arrondissement ) and most recently at 92 rue d'Hauteville ( 10th arrondissement ).

family

Fechner had a younger brother, the philosopher and physicist Gustav Theodor Fechner and three younger sisters Emilie (1803-1898), Clementine (1804-1893) and Mathilde (1806-1883). Clementine was Friedrich Wieck's second wife and thus became the stepmother of Clara Wieck (later Schumann). Mathilde married the postal secretary Kietz and became the stepmother of the painter Ernst Benedikt Kietz and the sculptor Gustav Adolph Kietz . Her own son Theodor Kietz (1829–1898) also became a sculptor. As a widow Mathilde lived with her mother Fechner in Leipzig and moved to Dresden after her death. Emelie married the teacher Johannes Gottlieb Kuntze in Grimma . Their children were the lawyer Johannes Emil Kuntze and the politician Oskar Theodor Kuntze . Johannes Emil was raised by his uncle Gustav Theodor Fechner since 1834. Emilie died very old as a widow Kuntze in Blasewitz .

Eduard Fechner was never married himself.

Portrait of Clara Wieck (later Schumann) at the age of twelve on a concert tour in Paris (after a lithograph by E. Fechner)

Works

Fechner created portraits, especially of young women and children. His best-known work is a lithograph of his sister Clara Wieck's stepdaughter , which was made in Paris in 1832. A few months after his death, his estate was auctioned off. Since then, some of his works have been in well-known collections, are privately owned or have been lost.

Working in collections

  • Germanic National Museum Nuremberg
  • British Museum London
  • Albertina Vienna
  • State Art Collections Dresden
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art
  • Braunschweig Municipal Museum

Exhibitions (selection)

literature

Web links

Commons : Eduard Clemens Fechner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Rainer Behrends: Fechner, Eduard Clemens . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 37, Saur, Munich a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-598-22777-9 , p. 365 f.
  2. ↑ a b his brother's curriculum vitae on uni-leipzig.de (accessed on August 11, 2020)
  3. ↑ Maximilian Wontorra (Ed.) (2004): Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920) and the beginnings of experimental psychology. Anniversary edition for the 125th anniversary of the founding of the institute. University of Leipzig, Institute for General Psychology, Chair Prof. Dr. E. Schröger. ISBN 3-00-013477-8
  4. ^ A b c Johann Emil Kuntze: Gustav Theodor Fechner (Dr. Mises): a German learned life . Leipzig 1892. Page 20. URN
  5. ↑ a b Johann Emil Kuntze: Gustav Theodor Fechner (Dr. Mises): a German learned life . Leipzig 1892. page 23.
  6. ↑ Fischer, Gottlob Eusebius in the Vegelahn Bible Archives (accessed on August 11, 2020)
  7. ↑ Gottlob Eusebius Fischer: The miracles of my life. Neustadt 1834. Pages 110–111. Permalink
  8. ^ Johann Emil Kuntze: Gustav Theodor Fechner (Dr. Mises): a German learned life . Leipzig 1892. page 24.
  9. ^ Johann Emil Kuntze: Gustav Theodor Fechner (Dr. Mises): a German learned life . Leipzig 1892. page 27.
  10. ↑ Annuaire général du commerce, de l'industrie, de la magistrature et de l'administration ou Almanach des 500000 adresses de Paris, des départements et des pays étrangers, Volume 10. Didot 1847. Page 111.
  11. ↑ a b Johann Emil Kuntze: Gustav Theodor Fechner (Dr. Mises): a German learned life . Leipzig 1892. Page 112f.
  12. ^ Albert Teichmann:  Kuntze, Johannes Emil . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 51, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, pp. 441-445.
  13. ↑ Andreas Andresen: The German painter-Radirer (peintres-graveurs) of the nineteenth century according to their lives and works. Vol. 4. Rudolph Weigel, Leipzig 1872, p. 223. pdf
personal data
SURNAME Fechner, Eduard Clemens
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fechner, Edouard Clemens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH Groß Särchen near Muskau
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1861
Place of death Paris