Friedrich Fennel

Friedrich Fennel (born August 12, 1872 in Kassel ; † February 15, 1926 there ) was a German landscape painter and lithographer . His works were created in the impressionist style .

Life

Fennel started his apprenticeship with the glass painter Ely in Kassel in 1886 , and he subsequently worked for him. He studied between 1892 and 1898 at the Kassel Art Academy . There he was a student of Georg Koch , Louis Kolitz and Carl Wünnenberg . After a six-month stay in Italy in 1903, which took him to Venice, Florence and Lake Garda, he worked for a year in Paris at the Académie Julian and with J. Paul Laurent, where he turned to modern open-air painting. From 1904 he moved to Kassel. Here he met the painter Carl Bantzer , with whom he then maintained a friendly relationship. He was a member of the board of theKassel Art Association and later member of the Kurhessischer Künstlerbund . From February 1915 Fennel came to France and later to Russia as a war painter during the First World War . From 1918 he repeatedly stayed in the Willingshausen painters' colony . There he belonged to the circle of artists around Carl Bantzer. He was one of the founding members of the painter group in 1923 .

Grave of Friedrich Fennel in the cemetery in Wehlheiden

In 1926, Fennel died of flu . His grave is in the cemetery in Wehlheiden and is an honorary grave of the city of Kassel.

Artistic work

He created numerous drawings, graphics and pictures with oil or watercolor . His motifs are landscapes and buildings from northern Hesse, especially Kassel. Later he turned to nude and portrait painting . He painted in the impressionist style .

Exhibitions (selection)

• Berlin, Great Art Exhibition (1906, 1907, 1910, 1912)
• Kassel (1913)
• Düsseldorf (1902, 1913)
• Hanover (1912)
• Munich, Glaspalast (1906, 08, 1912, 1914)
• Friedrich Fennel: Memorial Exhibition, Kunstverein zu Kassel (1926, 1952)
• Solo exhibition by Friedrich Fennel , City Museum and Palais Bellevue in Kassel, curator Harald Kimpel (1989)

Honors

• The Friedrich-Fennel-Strasse in Kassel
• Honorary grave of the city of Kassel

literature

• Foundation Central Institute and Museum for Sepulchral Culture (Ed .; edited by Joachim Diefenbach and Dagmar Kuhle): City history in life stories. The honor graves of the city of Kassel. Biographies - portraits - graves. Working group Cemetery u. Monument, Kassel 2013, ISBN 978-3-924447-52-6 , pp. 122–123.
• Harald Kimpel (ed.), Magistrate of the City of Kassel: The urge to landscape: Friedrich Fennel (1872–1928). Marburg 1989, ISBN 3-922561-86-1 .
• Paul Schmaling: Artist Lexicon Hessen-Kassel 1777–2000. Kassel 2001. - Article Friedrich Fennel p. 181.
• Wolfgang Hermsdorff (ed.): A look back at old Kassel. Volume 4 Artists, experts, children of the muses, Dietrichs GmbH, Kassel 1982, p. 60.
• Fennel, Friedrich . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 11 : Erman-Fiorenzo . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1915, p. 388 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Fennel, Friedrich . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 38, Saur, Munich a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-598-22778-7 , p. 180.