Felix Possart

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Felix Possart (born March 7, 1837 in Berlin; † February 24, 1928 there ) was a German lawyer and painter .

Life

View of the rocky shore of Lake Como, 1907

Possart was active as a city judge in Berlin when he decided at the end of the 1870s to resume the preoccupation with art that he had already pursued in his youth and to train as a landscape painter.

After studying with Hans Fredrik Gude and Franz Skarbina at the Berlin Art Academy , he first got to know Spain in 1882 , whose buildings and scenic beauties in their brilliant light and air he reproduced in numerous pictures. In 1891 he studied old Moorish life and costumes in Morocco , painted, inspired by the real oriental life, a Lord's Supper (1894) and Christ's entry into Jerusalem (1896) and stayed in Palestine in 1899 . He often spent the summer on Lake Como , showing off its boats and fishing life ( procession in Parenna ; fishermen with trawls ). He also often treated Switzerland ( Risselalp ; Benedictine monks in front of the abbey in Engelberg ).

Possart was a member of the Berlin Freemason Lodge for Resistance .

Felix Possart died in Berlin in 1928, two weeks before his 91st birthday, and was buried in Cemetery I of the Jerusalem and New Churches in Berlin-Kreuzberg . The grave is preserved.

literature

  • Adolph Kohut : Famous Israelite Men and Women in Human Cultural History . Life and character images from the past and present. tape 1 . Payne, Leipzig, p. 284-286 (1900-1901).
  • Isidore Singer (Ed.): The Jewish Encyclopedia . A Descriptive Record of the History, Religion, Literature, and Costums of the Jewish People from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. tape 10 . Funk & Wagnalls, New York, pp. 129-130 (1901-1905).
  • Renate Heuer (Ed.): Bibliographica Judaica . Directory of Jewish authors in the German language. tape 2 . Kraus, Munich, p. 328 (1981-1996).

Web links

Commons : Felix Possart  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ This year: Bibliographica Judaica , Volume 2.
  2. ^ Kohut, p. 285.
  3. ^ Kohut, p. 284.
  4. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 215.
personal data
SURNAME Possart, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1928
Place of death Berlin