Heinrich Christoph Fehling

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Heinrich Christoph Fehling (born April 23, 1654 in Sangerhausen , † mid- November 1725 in Dresden ) was a German court painter at the court of August the Strong in Dresden.

Life

Fehling was born as the son of a draper in Sangerhausen. He became a student of his cousins, the brothers Johann Andreas Bottschildt and Samuel Bottschildt . From 1672 he went on a study trip to Italy with Samuel Bottschildt and finally settled in Dresden in 1677 as a painter. In 1692 Fehling was appointed Saxon court painter. Five years later he founded a free drawing school. In the same year he became a teacher at a new drawing school on Kreuzgasse and in 1706 as the successor to Bottschildt Oberhofmaler. August the Strong also appointed him inspector of the elector's paintings and academy master of the Dresden painters' academy. Fehling's students included Christian Benjamin Müller , Christian Friedrich Zincke and his own son, the later porcelain painter Carl Heinrich Jakob Fehling . Fehling died in Dresden in 1725 and was buried in the Johanniskirchhof ; his grave has not been preserved.

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Portrait of the wolf Caspar von Klengel by Heinrich Christoph Fehling

In 1690, together with Samuel Bottschildt, Fehling painted the large ceiling painting in the palace in the Great Garden depicting the apotheosis of Johann Georg III. showed. It is considered his main work and was destroyed in 1945. Fehling also painted the ceiling fresco in the French pavilion of the Dresden Zwinger in 1717 , which was also destroyed in 1945. Another ceiling painting followed in 1721 in Palais Vitzthum-Rutowski, which was destroyed in a fire in 1786.

Various portraits have been preserved, including the portrait of the wolf Caspar von Klengel in the Old Masters Picture Gallery . In the Dresden City Museum there is a portrait of Janus von Eberstädt from 1719; the group portrait of Countess Aurora von Königsmarck is in Moritzburg Castle .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ It is unclear whether this is the date of birth or christening. Sh. Christel Hebig: Via Italy to the Saxon court . In: "Sächsische Zeitung", April 23, 2004, p. 10.
  2. ^ CCC Gretschel, Friedrich Bülau: History of the Saxon People and State , Verlag Reinhold Beyer, 1847, p. 527.
  3. ↑ Christel Hebig: About Italy to the Saxon court . In: "Sächsische Zeitung", April 23, 2004, p. 10.
personal data
SURNAME Fehling, Heinrich Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1654
PLACE OF BIRTH Sangerhausen
DATE OF DEATH November 1725
Place of death Dresden