Friedrich Happel
Friedrich Happel (born May 23, 1825 in Arnsberg ; † July 5, 1854 in Düsseldorf ) was a German painter of the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Happel was the brother of the landscape painter Peter Heinrich Happel . From 1838 he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . Due to a lack of financial means he had to finish his studies in 1841. He lived for a long time as a guest of the family of the Barons von Fürstenberg at Herdringen Castle . There he conducted intensive nature studies. In particular, he, an avid hunter and good marksman, devoted himself to hunting game. He returned to Düsseldorf, where he belonged to the artists' association Malkasten , and often painted pictures of wild animals. The pictures of the life of the foxes are particularly numerous. He also painted other animals, dead game and hunting scenes. Within the Düsseldorf School, he was particularly noted for the fact that, alongside Siegmund Lachenwitz, he was the first artist in this group to turn to the genre of animal and hunting painting. The landscape of the Arnsberg Forest was often depicted as part of his genre paintings . He exhibited at numerous exhibitions in the 1840s and 1850s. In 1848 a portfolio of lithographs with the title “Jagd-Scenen” appeared in Arnsberg. The Swiss painter Pierre de Salis-Soglio was trained by him in the years 1852/1853 .
Works (selection)
- Illustrations
- In: Collection of original etchings by Düsseldorf artists. - Düsseldorf: Schulgen, 1850. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
literature
- Friedrich Happel . In: Andreas Andresen (founder), Joseph Eduard Wessely : The German painter-Radirer (Peintres-Graveurs) of the nineteenth century . Danz, Leipzig 1877, pp. 197-200.
- Moritz Blanckarts : Happel, Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 552.
- Happel, Friedrich . In: Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon . Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 237.
- Happel, Friedrich . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume 1, Dresden 1891, p. 459 f.
- Birgit Gropp: artist biographies . In: Art in the Sauerland. Contributions to the cultural history of South Westphalia . Schmallenberg-Holthausen, 2009, ISBN 978-3-941100-72-5 , p. 199.
Web links
- Friedrich Happel , Auction Results on artnet .de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Inventory list , website in the malkasten.org portal
- ^ H. Weiss: Düsseldorf in the autumn of 1850 . In: Friedrich Eggers : Deutsches Kunstblatt . Weigel, Leipzig 1850, p. 332 ( Google Books )
- ^ The Düsseldorf School of Painting . In: Friedrich Steger : Supplementary Conversation Lexicon . Supplementary sheets-Verlag, Leipzig and Meißen, Volume 9, p. 466 ( Google Books )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Happel, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 23, 1825 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Arnsberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 5, 1854 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |