Ludwig Fay
Ludwig Benno Fay , also Louis Fay (born March 24, 1859 in Gerresheim , † August 16, 1906 in Düsseldorf ), was a German animal painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Chat in the yard , group picture with Karl Mücke
After his first painting and drawing lessons with his father Joseph Fay , he was a private student of the Düsseldorf battle painter Emil Hünten , who trained him to be a horse painter. Through his mother Marie, a daughter of the publisher and printer's owner Heinrich Arnz (1785–1854, Arnz & Comp. ), He was the nephew of the painters Albert and Otto Arnz as well as Oswald Achenbach and Albert Flamm .
Works (selection)
Fay is known for creating a number of paintings in collaboration with, for example, German Grobe , Karl Mücke and Carl Schultze .
- The homecoming , 1896, together with Karl Mücke
- Horse drink
- A herd of wild horses rounded up by farmers
- Boar hounded by dogs in an evening winter forest
- Bracke with butterfly
- Rider with dog in winter landscape
literature
- Fay, Ludwig . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume I, Dresden 1895, p. 289. - Internet Archive
- Fay, Ludwig . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 11 : Erman-Fiorenzo . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1915, p. 314 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Fay, Ludwig . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 37, Saur, Munich a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-598-22777-9 , p. 318 f.
- Dietrich Bieber: Two painters - one picture. The Flensburg Fjord in joint works by German Grobe (1857–1938) and Ludwig Fay (1859–1906) . In: Nordelbingen. Contributions to the art and cultural history of Schleswig-Holstein , Volume 78, 2009, pp. 79–91.
Web links
Commons : Ludwig Benno Fay - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Ludwig Benno Fay . Data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
- Ludwig Benno Fay . Auction results in the portal artnet .de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fay, Ludwig |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fay, Ludwig Benno; Fay, Louis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German animal painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 24, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gerresheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 16, 1906 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |