Eduard Fiedler (painter)

Ernst Louis Eduard Fiedler (born May 14, 1871 in Apfelstädt , † June 25, 1931 in Galtür , Tyrol ) was a teacher in Manebach , Gotha and Berlin . He became known as a versatile painter , especially historical Thuringian motifs with a focus on Veste Wachsenburg (near Arnstadt ).

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Self-portrait by Eduard Fiedler with his wife (1923)

Fiedler was born in Apfelstädt in the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg and Gotha in 1871 . There he also attended elementary school, then from 1887–1890 the Herzog-Ernst-Seminar in Gotha. In 1891 he became a teacher at the elementary school in Manebach near Ilmenau. In 1893 Fiedler married Gertrud Martha Türk from Gotha. The marriage resulted in 6 children. From 1895 he was a teacher at an elementary school in Gotha. In 1897 he passed the drawing teacher examination in Breslau . 1901–1905 he studied at the Royal Prussian Academic College of Fine Arts in (Berlin-) Charlottenburg, funded by the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. From 1905 to 1931 Fiedler was a teacher in Berlin , in the First World War 1915–1916 a soldier in France, 1916–1918 at the weapons office for the allied Ottoman Army. His locations were in (today's states) Turkey, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq. For his services he was awarded the Iron Cross by a Prussian general in Ottoman service . Fiedler died in Galtür / Tyrol in 1931.

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The work comprises nearly 3000 works: sketches, studies, drawings, paintings, wall paintings, book illustrations, book decorations and postcard designs in oil, chalk, pencil, crayon, watercolor and ink painting. Fiedler furnished the interior of the Veste Wachsenburg, which was rebuilt in the 19th and early 20th centuries, with historical and mystical representations. For the planned redesign of the Wachsenburg in the 1920s and 1930s, Fiedler made designs for the walls of the Great Knight's Hall . He created a total of 471 designs, murals, portraits, postcards and drawings for the Wachsenburg alone. Eight murals by Fiedler in the south room of the knight's hall on the fortress were destroyed during the GDR era. Only photographs of them that were made in 1952 still exist. Portraits painted by Fiedler show images of personalities from the ducal houses of Saxony-Coburg and Gotha, family members and other people. Other motifs were landscapes and townscapes, especially from Central Thuringia, but also from the Middle East during his military service there. For the liner SMS Thüringen launched in 1909 , Fiedler created the picture "Gotha with Schloss Friedenstein", which hung in the mess hall. The ship was destroyed by the French as a target ship after the World War, the plant was lost.

Memberships

Fiedler was an active member of the Wachsenburg Association and the Wachsenburg Committee (which brought together the important Wachsenburg collections of local and ethnographic content on the fortress, for the Franco-German War 1870/71 and other militaria), in the Gotha Art Association, in the Association for Gotha History and antiquity research, the Gotha Liedertafel and the Gothaisches Landeslehrerverein.

Awards

• Herzog-Alfred-Medaille: Medal of Merit for Art and Science of the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, in 1900
• Certificate of appointment as an honorary neighbor of the Wachsenburg community in 1910
• Iron Cross in World War I

literature

• Janny Dittrich and Helga Scheidt: Eduard Fiedler and the design of the Wachsenburg. Leaflet for an exhibition in the Arnstadt Castle Museum, from December 2008 to March 29, 2009. Ed .: Arnstadt Castle Museum 2008
• Burkhard Fiedler: The life's work of Eduard Fiedler from Apfelstädt . A documentation.
• Klaus-Jürgen Fiedler: Excerpts from the extensive collection of sources, the drafts and pictures of the painter Ernst Louis Eduard Fiedler for a chronicle of Apfelstädt, ancestral home of the Fiedler family since 1625 : For the 1225th anniversary of Apfelstädt in 2000. Edited in Berlin , 1999.
• Uwe-Jens Wandel: Special exhibition for apple town artists. In: Thüringische Landeszeitung, December 13, 2008