Felix Schmidt (painter)

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Friedrich Adolph Felix Schmidt (born June 6, 1857 in Lübbecke , Minden district ; † January 5, 1927 in Düsseldorf ) was a German landscape , animal and hunting painter , lithographer , illustrator and silhouette artist .

Life

Schmidt studied at the art academies in Leipzig and Munich , where Gyula Benczúr , Johann Leonhard Raab and Ludwig von Löfftz were his teachers. From 1884 he lived in Düsseldorf and became a member of the Malkasten artists' association . In addition to his painting, he illustrated non-fiction, children's and youth books, among others for the publishers Steinkamp (Duisburg) and Felix Bagel (Düsseldorf) .

Works (selection)

Loan from the city of Düsseldorf , 1899

Illustrations

  • together with Anders Montan : 88 illustrations for Friedrich Karl Georg Müller's writing Krupp's Gußstahlfabrik , 1896 (subsequently also appeared in English and French translation)
  • Who wants to be among the soldiers? , Title page and 15 plates (chromolithographs) with text by H. Weinert and verses by A. Steinkamp, ​​Verlag Steinkamp, ​​Duisburg 1897
  • Loan from the city of Düsseldorf , 1899

literature

  • Otto Brunken, Bettina Hurrelmann, Maria Michels-Kohlhage, Gisela Wilkending: Handbook for children's and youth literature. From 1850 to 1900 . JB Metzler Verlag (Springer-Verlag), Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-476-01687-4 , p. 1432 ( Google Books )
  • Manfred Neureiter: Lexicon of ex-libris artists . 4th edition, Konstanz 2016, p. 594 ( Google Books )

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Inventory list , website on the malkasten.org portal , accessed on January 8, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Felix
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Friedrich Adolph Felix (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape, animal and hunting painter, lithographer, illustrator and silhouette artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübbecke , Minden administrative district
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1927
Place of death Dusseldorf