Jacob Fehrmann

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Self-portrait by Jacob Fehrmann from 1788

Jacob Fehrmann (born January 27, 1760 (baptism) in Bremen , † August 27, 1837 in Bremen) was a drawing teacher and portrait painter in Bremen.

Life

Fehrmann was born in Bremen in 1760 as the son of the master turner Jacob Fehrmann. In March 1779 he turned to the Bremen Senate for a scholarship, including work samples, in order to be trained as an artist in Copenhagen with this support. An illness or injury to his leg prevents him from doing another job. The Senate approved 150 thalers each for four years. In 1783 Fehrmann received a medal for drawing based on the model in Copenhagen, similar prizes (1784 for a sketch of The Suffering Philoctetes ; 1784 a gold medal for the oil painting Willehad's Conversion ) he won in the two following years in Kassel, where he probably earned the reputation of 1779 opened Fridericianum and its director Johann Heinrich Tischbein had moved. On condition that he then settled down as a painter in Bremen, Fehrmann was again granted 300 thalers for journeys in 1785 in order to study Rubens' paintings in Düsseldorf . In June 1785 he stayed in Göttingen, whether and how long he studied in Düsseldorf is not known. He was back in Bremen by 1788 at the latest, the year the first paintings were made here. In 1806 he married Cäcilie Deetjen. He died in 1837.

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Measured against the five decades that Fehrmann was available in Bremen as a “master drawer, miniature painter, history and portrait painter”, his traditional oeuvre is surprisingly narrow. Among his oil paintings, only the two self-portraits stand out: the older, compositionally still uncertain because of the attempt to portray himself as a classicist artist, the one painted in 1808 through close-sightedness and intensive turning towards the viewer. Among the drawings, Fehrmann's contribution to the important complex of portraits in the Wilkens cabinet , a bourgeois portrait collection created between 1770 and 1810, is remarkable .

  • Self-portrait in the studio, oil on canvas, 1788, Focke-Museum Bremen
  • Wilhelm Olbers , oil on canvas, 1788, Focke-Museum Bremen
  • J. F. W. Iken and H. Iken, oil on canvas, both 1788, Focke-Museum Bremen
  • Johanne Wienholt , 1789, Focke-Museum Bremen
  • Self-portrait, oil on canvas, 1808, Focke-Museum Bremen
  • Cecilie Fehrmann, oil on canvas, 1808, Focke-Museum Bremen
  • the series of lightly inked pencil drawings comprising around 123 portraits in the Wilkens cabinet of the Focke Museum as well as some drawings and watercolors in the Kunsthalle Bremen and the Bremen State and University Library .

proof

  1. ↑ The Friderizianum's visitor book, which will soon be available digitally , may provide more details on this
  2. ↑ so in the Bremen address books from 1794 to 1839

literature

  • Friedrich von Spreckelsen: The Peter Wilckens'sche portrait collection . In: Yearbook of the Bremen Collections 2 . 1909, pp. 104-108 ( digitized version ).
  • Johann Focke: Fehrmann, Jacob . In: Bremen biography of the 19th century . Bremen 1912, p. 131f.
  • Jörn Christiansen (Hrsg.): Art and citizenship in Bremen . Hauschild Verlag, Bremen 2000, ISBN 978-3-8975-7063-4 , pp. 23-25.
  • Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . Bremen 2002, p. 207 [with wrong illustration]
personal data
SURNAME Fehrmann, Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH baptized January 27, 1760
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 1837
Place of death Bremen