Hans Peter Feddersen the Elder

Hans Peter Feddersen the Elder (born January 9, 1788 in Westerschnatebüll ; † September 23, 1860 there ) was a Danish farmer and portrait painter .

Life

Hans Peter Feddersen was born as the son of Harke Feddersen, a farmer and village school teacher in Westerschnatebüll , who had acquired a considerable education as an autodidact and who taught his sons himself. As a pastor in Niebüll, his brother Christian Feddersen encouraged the discovery of Frisian as an independent culture.

Hans Peter Feddersen taught himself to paint, played the violin and was also a writer . He is one of the most important portrait miniaturists of the 19th century in Schleswig-Holstein . He described his time in the Danish military in the work Hans Peter Feddersen the Elder , published posthumously in 1913, and his war diary 1813/14 ( “The strangest year of my life” ).

Works by Feddersen hang in museums in Tondern , Husum , Flensburg , Deezbüll and Schleswig .

His son Hans Peter Feddersen d. J. was a well-known landscape painter .

literature

• Berend Harke Feddersen: The miniature portraitist Hans Peter Feddersen the Elder. (1788-1860). A Biedermeier traveling artist in Schleswig-Holstein (= writings of the North Frisian Museum Ludwig-Nissenhaus, Husum. No. 28). Christians, Hamburg 1988, ISBN 3-7672-1071-1 .
• Lilli Martius: Feddersen, Hans Peter d. Older . In: Olaf Klose (ed.): Schleswig-Holsteinisches Biographisches Lexikon, Vol. 1, Neumünster: Wachholtz 1970, pp. 138-139.