Hanns Fechner

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Hanns Fechner around 1900, photographed by his father Wilhelm Fechner
Hanns Fechner in his studio, 1907. Photo by R. Siegert.
Hanns Fechner: Portrait of Rudolf Virchow , 1891
Hanns Fechner: Portrait Theodor Fontane , lithograph, 1896

Johannes "Hanns" Fechner (born June 7, 1860 in Berlin ; † November 30, 1931 in Schreiberhau ) was a German painter , graphic artist , medalist and writer . Hanns Fechner has made a name for himself primarily with portraits of Theodor Fontane (1890), Rudolf Virchow (1892) and Wilhelm Raabe (1893).

painter

Fechner attended the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium and the Royal Realschule in Berlin and was then first taught by his father Wilhelm Fechner (1835-1909), a painter and photographer. From 1877 to 1883 he studied at the Academy of Arts and was then a master student of Franz Defregger in Munich. From 1892 he was a professor and curator at the Duke-Anhalt's Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin.

In addition to painting portraits, Fechner also worked as an illustrator of texts, made lithographs and drew motifs from his home town of Wilmersdorf . Fechner is hardly known as a local painter in Berlin.

In a work on the image of the scientist at the end of the 19th century, the critic Gabriele Werner about the Virchow picture by Fechner states, among other things: "Contemporary photographs document that Fechner's specific scientific attribution is not an image creation of him." Rather, the portrait shows , which Virchow depicts in his Spartan study with a surgical device in his right hand, while the left hand rests on a human skull, a thoroughly realistic, detailed representation of reality. Werner's remarks about the meaning of the dark suit that Virchow wears and the almost imperious gesture with which he encircles the skull come to the conclusion that Fechner is thus underlining the claim of the bourgeois man of this time, only from himself, from the to take advantage of one's own performance .

Fechner has also been involved in fishing since 1880 and was one of the founders of the German Anglers' Association in 1900 . V.

writer

An eye disease forced Fechner to give up painting. He turned to writing, but only became known in this profession with his childhood memories, Spreehann's autobiography . Wilhelm Fechner, father of Hanns Fechner, owned a country house in the village center of Deutsch-Wilmersdorf (Brandenburgische Strasse 87/88, today Brandenburgische Strasse 56/57). Here Fechner experienced the early days as a child around 1870 , the rise of many large farmers to the so-called "million farmers" and the development into the famous Wilmersdorf seaside resort . His memories depict this period of upheaval with a lot of local color. The famous country house of the Fechner family was demolished soon after the death of Wilhelm Fechner. Today, the new building for the Federal Insurance Agency for Salaried Employees (BfA), built in 1964, is located here .

As a reminder, "Fechnerstraße" in Wilmersdorf has been bearing the name of the artist since 1947, which had already been given two new names: formerly "An der Trift" (approx. 1856 - approx. 1890), "Lauenburger Straße" (approx. 1890– 1937) and "Walter-Fischer-Strasse" (1937–1947).

Hanns Fechner's ashes were not buried in Berlin, but in Schreiberhau .

family

Hanns Fechner was married for the second time from 1899 to the writer Cilla Reuleaux (born August 18, 1857, used Goldstein, daughter of Franz Reuleaux ) under the pseudonym O. Verbeck . His first marriage, on July 30, 1887 with Anna Benda, was dissolved in Berlin on June 8, 1898 (StA Berlin III).

Fonts

  • The Spreehanns - A youth story from the previous century . Fontane & Co., Berlin 1911 (first edition, 1400 copies according to printer's note)
  • The fishing brothers. A painter's summer in Mittenwald . Fontane & Co., Berlin 1911
  • Painter trips. Learning and noise time . Fontane & Co., Berlin 1912
  • Upcoming art? Halle ad Saale 1915
  • Forest people from the realm of the mountain spirits . Offenbach 1920
  • Love in the water and other fish stories . Richard Eckstein Nachf. GmbH, Leipzig 1920
  • The painter brothers: a painter's summer in Mittenwald . Berlin 1925
  • My dear old Berlin. A new volume of Spreehann stories . Rembrandt, Berlin 1926
  • People I painted. With 17 illustrations after own works . Preface by Hermann Stehr . (About Wilhelm Raabe , Anton von Werner , Theodor Fontane , Gerhart Hauptmann , Wilhelm Bölsche and others), Rembrandt, Berlin 1927
  • From Nöckelmann's realm . J. Neumann Publishing House, Neudamm 1927
  • Mountain magic. Fairy tales from Rübezahl's realm . Berlin 1928

Awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Hanns Fechner  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Prof. Johannes (Hanns) Fechner. Artist. German Society for Medal Art, accessed on November 7, 2015 .
  2. ^ Hippolyt von Norman (Ed.): Deutsches Sport-Lexikon , Berlin 1928
  3. ↑ Fechnerstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
  4. ^ Willi Wohlberedt : Directory of the graves of well-known and famous personalities in Greater Berlin, Potsdam and the surrounding area , part 3, addendum
  5. ^ Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 , p. 398.
personal data
SURNAME Fechner, Hanns
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fechner, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1931
Place of death Schreiberhau