Johann Everhard Feilner

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Johann Everhard Feilner , also Johann Eberhard Feilner (born March 28, 1802 in Cologne , † May 27, 1869 ) was a German draftsman and photographer in Cologne and Bremen.

biography

Feilner initially worked as a lithographer in Cologne . He followed his brother Franz to Bremen in 1833, where he had been running a printing company since 1825. In the same year he established himself as a portrait painter and drawing teacher . Little is known of his graphic work. Feilner was one of the first in Bremen to turn to photography. Since 1844 he owned a studio for daguerreotypes in Bremen , as early as 1845 he advertised 14  inch daguerreotypes, an unusually large format. In the address book he continued to operate as a portrait painter in miniature and pastel . It was not until 1854 that he referred to his photographs on silver and paper . Feilner, who was the first photographer to establish himself permanently in Bremen, stayed for about two decades. He limited himself to portrait photography. He died on May 27, 1869. There were no indications of the statement made by the author Fritz Kempe that his studio had been continued by his son Jean Baptiste.

Among the daguerreotypes that have been preserved by Feilner, one deserves special mention because of the person depicted: she depicts Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann . She was probably one of the most successful daguerreotypists and photographers at the time.

family

Johann Everhard Feilner was the son of the book printer Matthias Feilner in Cologne and his wife Christine Fischer. Feilner married Christina Wilhelmina Catharina, born in Bremen in 1833. Pansing, who was born in Bremen. They had several children:

  • Johann Everhard Feilner (1839–1876), who in 1863 applied to emigrate to Elsfleth. In the same year he married Helene Catharine Bunjes (1838–1899). Their eldest daughter was the photographer Anna Feilner . JE Feilner opened a photographic studio in 1867 (?) In Oldenburg at Staustraße 8 . In 1874 he moved the studio to Inner Damm 12 and operated it under the name “Feilner's photographic institute” with Albert J. Stahmer until his death in 1876. Stahmer kept the name until 1880.

literature

  • Joh. Focke: Feilner, Johann Everhard, photographer and portrait painter . In: Historische Gesellschaft des Künstlerverein (Hrsg.): Bremische Biographie des 19. Century . Gustav Winter, Bremen 1912, p. 132 , urn : nbn: de: gbv: 46: 1-1151 .
  • Fritz Kempe : Daguerreotype in Germany . Heering, Seebruck 1979, p. 179-181 .
  • Harald Goergens, Alfred Löhr: Pictures for everyone . Bremen photography in the 19th century. In: Rosemarie Pohl-Weber, (Ed.): Hefte des Focke-Museum . tape 68 , 1985, pp. 28-29, 30-35, 39, 108 .
  • Farafonava-Fejérváry . In: Saur (Hrsg.): Allgemeine Künstlerlexikon . tape 37 . Verlag de Gruyter, Munich-Leipzig 2003, p. 543 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Year of emigration: 1833, destination of emigration: Bremen, Bremen (source: Landesarchiv NRW, emigrants from the Rhineland, BR 1040 236 7).
  2. ^ Johann Jakob Merlo : Art and Artists in Cologne . In: Artist News Department . News of life and works. JM Heberle, Cologne 1850, p. 114 ( digitized versionhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.de%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DhKg-AAAAcAAJ%26pg%3DPA114%26dq%3Dfalse%23v%3Donepage%26q%26f%3Dfalse~GB% 3D ~ IA% 3D ~ MDZ% 3D% 0A ~ SZ% 3D ~ double-sided% 3D ~ LT% 3D ~ PUR% 3D ).
  3. ↑ Kempe: Daguerreotype in Germany , p. 180
  4. ↑ Daguerreobase , daguerreotype: B.1994.013 GRASSI Museum for Applied Arts Leipzig, ( online ).
  5. ↑ The question about this daguerreotype arises: How did it come about that Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann, who came from Leipzig, was photographed in Bremen? She could have boarded and disembarked a sailing ship in Bremen, since she left for New York in 1849 and returned in 1851.
  6. ↑ Her sister Anna Geneta Pansing was the wife of Franz Feilner (1797-?)
  7. ↑ Source: [oo] Civ.Reg.Bremen, S. = 1833/61.
  8. ↑ Feilner. In: Emigrants from the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg. Oldenburg Society for Family Studies, accessed on March 21, 2017 .
  9. ↑ There is contradicting information on this: the first name of the owner of the photographic studio "Feilner's photographic studio" in Oldenburg is said to have been Hans Jürgen (source: alt-oldenburg.de ) and a son of his brother Franz (source: Joh. Focke: Feilner, Johann Everhard, photographer and portrait painter ), see also disk .
  10. ↑ Detailed entry Feilner, Eberhard Johann. Signature 2-P.8.A.12.b.1.F. In: Emigration of Bremen citizens. Bremen Chamber of Commerce and State Archives, accessed on March 20, 2017 .
  11. ^ The photographer Anna Feilner. In: Alt-Oldenburg ... discover! Lore and Peter Bachmann, accessed on March 21, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Feilner, Johann Everhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Feilner, Johann Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 1869