Kornelius Feyen

Kornelius Feyen (born April 17, 1886 in Boisheim / Niederrhein , † June 28, 1957 in Ahrweiler ) was a German teacher and painter .

Life

Kornelius Feyen was the son of the small trader Josef Feyen. After attending the elementary school in Boisheim and the secondary schools in Mönchengladbach , he attended the teachers' college in Odenkirchen . He began his first teaching position in Meerbeck near Moers , from where he was transferred to Rheydt after three years of activity . In 1922 he was transferred to Anrath at his own request . One must be like a father to the children , was his principle as a teacher. In addition to his teaching activities, he was active in many areas in Anrath: he founded the "Anrath Brass Band", was for years the "Musikverein Anrath", a thirty-piece string orchestra, as a conductor , and gave concerts as a pianist or singer . He directed a theater association he founded and often worked as an actor. From 1923 to 1924 he worked as a conductor in the male choir "Singers Association".

These activities ended in 1933 because his religious and political convictions opposed National Socialism , and he devoted himself increasingly to painting, which he had already started in the early twenties. As a result, he created numerous watercolors in which he captured motifs from the Lower Rhine landscape, and Feyen became an important landscape painter in the Rhineland, with exhibitions as far as Munich, Hamburg and Venlo.

In 1957 the father of six children, of whom only his daughter Helene, married to the Traben-Trarbach painter Ernst Havenstein, died, during a stay in Ahrweiler. A street in today's Willich district of Anrath was named after him.

literature

• Eva-Maria Willemsen, foreword by Hans Klein: Kornelius Feyen 1886-1957. The Anrath elementary school teacher, painter, musician and poet. Goch 2009, ISBN 978-3-941559-04-2 .

Web links

• Kornelius Feyen at Artnet