Felix Kreutzer (painter)

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Moon night in Venice

Felix Kreutzer (* 1835 in Düsseldorf ; † April 7, 1876 ibid) was a German landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

From 1851 to 1858 Kreutzer studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . Josef Wintergerst , Karl Ferdinand Sohn , Rudolf Wiegmann and Hans Fredrik Gude were his teachers there. Kreutzer stayed in the Gudes landscape class from 1854 to 1858. Kreutzer went on study trips to the Netherlands and the Rhine. As a mood painter he preferred romantic landscape motifs in evening or night light. In 1860 he took part in an academy exhibition in Berlin, and from 1854 to 1864 he exhibited at the Rheinischer Kunstverein in Mainz.

Works (selection)

  • Cowherd by the stream of a romantic valley , 1855
  • Summer day , 1856
  • Harbor entrance by moonlight , 1860
  • Dutch fairground scene in the moonlight , 1866
  • Ruin of a Gothic chapel under a full moon at night , 1868
  • Romantic mountain landscape under a bright full moon , 1873
  • Seascape in the Mountains , 1876
  • Lumberjack with a wagon in a winter landscape , 1876

literature

  • Kreutzer, Felix . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume I, Dresden 1895, p. 768.
  • Thieme-Becker , Volume 21 (1927), p. 519
  • Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918. Volume 2: Haach – Murtfeldt. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7654-3010-2 , p. 283.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Theilmann : The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker . In: Wend von Kalnein : The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 146
personal data
SURNAME Kreutzer, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1876
Place of death Dusseldorf