Fritz Ebel (painter, 1835)
Fritz Ebel (actually Friedrich Carl Werner Ebel ; born April 21, 1835 in Lauterbach , Hesse , † December 20, 1895 in Düsseldorf ) was a German landscape painter .
Life
After an apprenticeship as a pharmacist and working as a pharmacist's assistant in Osterode am Harz , Fritz Ebel became a private student of August Lucas in 1855 . From 1857 to 1861 Ebel was a student of Johann Wilhelm Schirmer at the academy in Karlsruhe . From 1862 he lived as a freelance painter in Düsseldorf, where he initially lived with his painter colleagues Eugen Bracht , Carl Harveng and August Kessler . There he belonged to the artists ' association Malkasten (artists' association) and undertook numerous study trips, including in 1863 to the Bavarian highlands, in 1865 to Tyrol and also in the 1860s to Italy . A private student of Ebels was the painter Adolf Eduard Storck .
Since the beginning of the 1860s Ebel took part in the major art exhibitions in Berlin , Düsseldorf, Vienna and the Kunstverein Barmen .
Services
Fritz Ebel mainly painted forest landscapes in the German low mountain range ( Vogelsberg , Rhön , Spessart , Eifel , Harz ) and is therefore referred to as the painter of the German forest. But also landscape motifs from the Alps , from northern Germany and from southern France can be found in his work. His early works are still under the influence of late Romanticism . But he soon broke away from this and switched to a freer, more natural conception of landscape, as represented in realism . Towards the end of his work, impressionistic influences also become noticeable. Fritz Ebel received a bronze medal at the London Crystal Palace Exhibition in 1884.
Works
Most of his works are privately owned. The Hohhaus Museum in Lauterbach, where he was born, owns and shows several works, including “Spessart Landscape” (oil on canvas, 60 × 80 cm, undated). Further works can be found in the Kunsthalle Bremen , the Hamburger Kunsthalle , the Staatliche Kunsthalle Hamburg , the Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig , the Museum Wiesbaden and the Von der Heydt Museum Wuppertal .
See also
literature
- Ebel, Fritz . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 10 : Dubolon – Erlwein . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1914, p. 291 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Meissner, Günter : Ebel, Hermann in: Sauer General Artist Lexicon . Volume 31, Dunlop - Ebers, Sauer: Leipzig 2002, p. 527 f.
- Fritz Ebel. The Lauterbach painter of the German forest . Brochure for the exhibition on the occasion of his 150th birthday in the Hohhaus-Museum in Lauterbach, from April 21 to June 2, 1985. Publisher: Lauterbacher Hohhaus-Museum; Printing: Ehrenklau, Lauterbach
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Kunsthalle Bremen: Online catalog , website in the portal kunsthalle-bremen.de , accessed on January 29, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ebel, Fritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 21, 1835 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lauterbach , Grand Duchy of Hesse |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 20, 1895 |
| Place of death | Düsseldorf , Prussia , German Empire |