Felix Frang

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Felix Ferdinand Frang , since the early 1900s, Felix Pahlama (* 28. October 1862 in Ikaalinen , Grand Duchy of Finland ; † 20th April 1932 in Vantaa in Helsinki ) was a Finnish painter , by altarpieces with depictions of Christ and landscape paintings became known .

Life

Christ on the Cross , altarpiece in the Church of Nokia , 1907

In 1878, at the age of 16, Frang, the only child of Karl Hermanninpoika Frang (1829–1895) and Maria Kustava Isakintytär Frang (1830–1913), began his artistic training at the drawing school of the Finnish Art Association in Helsinki. He left this school in 1885 on a scholarship that enabled him to travel to Düsseldorf and Paris . In 1886 he was enrolled at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in the ornament and decoration class led by Adolf Schill . Frang's study time abroad lasted until 1888. Back in Finland he made a name for himself as an altar painter. He also created portraits and landscapes.

Frang married Anna Dagmar Mattsson (1876–1924), who gave birth to four children, including Leo Frang (Leo Pahlama), who also became a landscape painter. The daughter Anna Maria, born in 1898, became a primary school teacher and in 1921 married the Finnish archaeologist and Evangelical Lutheran missionary Aapeli Saarisalo (1896–1986). When Frang stayed in Palestine after the death of his wife in 1925/1926 at the invitation of Saarisalo , he painted landscapes on the Sea of ​​Galilee .

Web links

Commons : Felix Frang  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 430
  2. ↑ Cf. No. 3623 in the finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , website in the archive.nrw.de portal ( North Rhine-Westphalia State Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Frang, Felix
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frang, Felix Ferdinand; Pahlama, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Ikaalinen , Grand Duchy of Finland
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1932
Place of death Vantaa near Helsinki