Karl Eduard Hefftler
Karl (or Carl) Eduard Hefftler (* April 26 . Jul / 8. May 1853 greg. In Reval ; † 5. November 1918 in Petrograd ) was a Baltic German painter and architect .
After completing a commercial apprenticeship, Hefftler went to St. Petersburg and trained at the Imperial Academy of Arts. As a self-employed architect (from 1891) he built factories, apartment buildings, villas and a palace for the Duke of Leuchtenberg . Ultimately, however, he devoted himself to watercolor painting . His pictures, which show landscapes, coasts, cities and ports, were created around the North Sea and Baltic Sea ( Gdansk , Stettin , Kiel , Flensburg , Hamburg , Altona , Bremen and on the islands of Rügen , Fehmarn , Sylt , Norderney , Borkum ) and in Italy ( Florence , Verona , Venice , Pisa , Pompeii , Capri and others), France , Belgium , the Netherlands and Russia ( Moscow , Caucasus , Crimea ). Hefftler also dealt with poetry , goldsmithing , theater decoration as well as ceramic and fresco painting .
literature
- Hefftler, Karl Eduard . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 16 : Hansen – Heubach . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1923, p. 239 .
- Harry Anderson: Karl Eduard Hefftler - the watercolorist. In: Yearbook of Baltic Germanism 1970. Volume XVII, Lüneburg 1969, pp. 125–127.
Web links
- Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Karl Eduard Hefftler. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hefftler, Karl Eduard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hefftler, Carl Eduard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Baltic painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 8, 1853 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Reval |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 5, 1918 |
| Place of death | Petrograd |