Hans Peter Feddersen (painter)

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Hans Peter Feddersen (born May 29, 1848 in Westerschnatebüll , North Friesland; † December 13, 1941 in Kleiseerkoog , today Galmsbüll , North Friesland ) was a German landscape and genre painter .

Life

He was the son of the portrait painter Hans Peter Feddersen the Elder and studied at the art academies in Düsseldorf with Oswald Achenbach from 1866 to 1871 and from 1871 in Weimar with Theodor Hagen , whom he had followed from Düsseldorf to Weimar. Study trips took him to Sylt , Masuria and Rügen . He temporarily settled in Bad Kreuznach . In 1870 he accompanied Hagen to Düsseldorf, where they wanted to convince the Hungarian painter Mihály Munkácsy to go to Weimar as a teacher. From April to June 1877 he traveled to Italy . In 1885, Kleiseerkoog in North Friesland became his permanent residence when he and his wife Margarethe returned to their parents' farm. He lived there as a freelance painter until his death in 1941.

In 1910 he was appointed professor, in 1924 he was awarded the doctoral degree hc by the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Kiel . In 1926 he became a member of the Academy of Arts , in 1938 he received the Goethe Medal for Art and Science .

Feddersen is one of the most important landscape painters in Schleswig-Holstein . But portraits and genre painting were also part of his work. The museums in Kiel , Flensburg and Husum still show works by him in permanent exhibitions. He began in naturalism and developed over echoes of impressionism to his later expressionist work. A catalog raisonné compiled by Stubbe / Martius contains 1466 works.

  • Works (excerpt)

  • Polish village (1874)

  • Russian weekly market (1876)

  • Great Navy Capri (1877)

  • Place of sacrifice (1884)

  • The daughter (1904)

Important exhibitions

Grave of the Feddersen family in Galmsbüll with a sculpture by Gregor von Bochmann from 1909. Hans Peter Feddersen was the sculptor's father-in-law. The sculpture disappeared at the end of the Second World War.

literature

  • Feddersen, Hans Peter . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume I, Dresden 1895, p. 291.
  • Hans Peter Feddersen the Younger (1848–1941) - drawings (= writings of the North Frisian Museum Nissenhaus, Husum. No. 46). With an introduction by Berend Harke Feddersen. Husum Verlag, Husum 1998, ISBN 3-88042-879-4 .
  • Lilli Martius, Ethe Stubbe, Hans-Jürgen Stubbe: The painter Hans Peter Feddersen. Life, letters, list of paintings (= studies on Schleswig-Holstein art history. Vol. 10, ISSN  0585-6191 ). Karl Wachholtz , Neumünster 1966.

Web links

Commons : Hans Peter Feddersen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Theilmann : The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker . In: Wend von Kalnein (Ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 146
  2. ^ Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer, Longing for Arcadia - Schleswig Holstein Artists in Italy, Heide 2009, pp. 295–307
  3. ↑ Exhibition catalog 1939, PDF file from kunstverein.de
personal data
SURNAME Feddersen, Hans Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Westerschnatebüll , North Frisia
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1941
Place of death Kleiseerkoog , North Frisia