Otto Clemens Fikentscher

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Blücher's rescue by his adjutant Nostitz ...
The Gazebo (1863): African troops in the Chalons camp. Taken from nature by Fikentscher
The Gazebo (1863): In the Chalons camp. Taken from nature by Fikentscher

Otto Clemens Fikentscher (born February 28, 1831 in Aachen , † November 12, 1880 in Düsseldorf ) was a German painter, draftsman and illustrator of the Düsseldorf School . A possible relationship with the painter of the same name Otto Fikentscher , married to the painter Jenny Fikentscher , has not been clarified.

Life

Otto Fikentscher (the elder) began his studies in 1851, initially in the “Antikensaal” of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , which was directed by Karl Ferdinand Sohn , and changed, like his friends Ernst Bosch , Robert Cauer the Elder . Ä. and Carl Thiel, in 1853 in the painting class of Theodor Hildebrandt . He trained in the field of history painting and, according to his special talent, devoted himself above all to the representation of horses in historical and current equestrian battles or in maneuver scenes, which dominate his oeuvre in addition to pure animal scenes . 1856/1857 he was a member of the artists' association Malkasten in Düsseldorf. After spending a few years in Stuttgart and Munich, he returned to Düsseldorf and settled here for good. In 1864 he - August Beck , Emil Hünten , Wilhelm Camphausen and Adolph Northen - belonged to the contingent of Düsseldorf artists who were sent to the theater of war as reporters during the German-Danish war around Schleswig-Holstein , and their works were subsequently shown in exhibitions in Düsseldorf and nationwide. He also worked as a reporter during the German War in 1866 and the Franco-German War in 1870/1871. He recorded the impressions he gained there in drawings and converted them into paintings and illustrations. The latter appeared as reproductions in the technique of wood engraving in many of the popular magazines, such as Die Gartenlaube - Illustrirtes Familienblatt and Über Land und Meer . He also discussed historical war events such as the Battle of Waterloo . Two works shown at the Düsseldorf Art Association in August 1861, Prussian Artillery in Combat and Battle Picture, commented on a report: “Fickentscher [showed] a liveliness that bordered on the wild, but also a certain frivolity in drawing. However, he is forgiven for his drawing errors, given the boldness of the composition. "

Works (selection)

  • Battle of Solferino between French and Austrian troops. (1859)
  • Prussian infantry in action. (1859)
  • Austrian cavalry and horse artillery in the Austro-Italian War of 1858/59. (1859)
  • Hussars in battle. (1860)
  • Horses defending a fallen foal against hyenas. (1860)
  • Episode from the battle at Haynan on May 26, 1813. (1862)
  • Scene from the Napoleonic War 1813. (1862)
  • Blücher near Ligny. (1862)
  • Blücher's rescue by his adjutant Nostitz at Quatre-Bras in 1815. [SIC! near Ligny on June 16, 1815. ]
  • French cavalry retreated by rapid fire at Sedan on September 1st (ember) 1870.
  • Attack of the 7th Cuirassier Regiment at Mars-la-Tour.
  • Imperial proclamation in Versailles.
  • Fight between lion and bengal tiger. Acquisition of the Städtische Galerie Düsseldorf from the exhibition of the Kunstverein, Düsseldorf 1900
  • Buffalo. German-national art exhibition Düsseldorf , 1.5. – 20.10.1902 (exhibition cat., No. 246)
  • In the ford. International art exhibition Düsseldorf, May 1 - October 23, 1904 (exhibition cat., No. 593)

Illustrations:

  • The girl from the lake. Lithograph after a drawing by O. Fikentscher for the fairy tale by W. Herchenbach. In: fairy tales for young and old . 1st edition. Arnz & Co., Düsseldorf 1856
  • Gustav Adolf at Lützen . In: Freya. Illustrated papers for the educated world . Stuttgart 1866, p. 277
  • Friedrich Müller: Wild Hunt . In: The Gazebo . Issue 19, 1866, pp. 300–302 ( full text [ Wikisource ] - Die Rennbahn in Scharnhausen).
  • Christmas Eve in the stable . In: The Gazebo . Issue 51, 1873, pp. 831, 834 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
  • George Ezekiel : Cuirassier song . In: The Gazebo . Issue 47, 1876, pp. 785 ( Full text [ Wikisource ] - We are Cuirassiers from Byern).
  • Looting Bashi Bozuk. (in the Russo-Turkish War). In: Daheim , 13th year, 1877, p. 696
  • Maneuver images . In: The Gazebo . Issue 36, 1881, pp. 596 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
  • Arrival in the quarters / hussar attack in line . In: The Gazebo . Issue 36, 1881, pp. 597 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
  • The model rider of the good old days . In: The Gazebo . Issue 20, 1883, pp. 329 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).

Illustrated books:

  • Album for the infantry and their friends. with lithographed title and 25 lithographed plates with clay ground. Cöln: Calow, around 1856
  • Adelbert Heinrich von Baudissin : Schleswig-Holstein embraced the sea. War and peace pictures from 1864. Stuttgart, Hallberger 1865.
  • Illustrated war chronicle. Commemorative book of the campaign of 1866 in Germany and Italy. (2nd edition) Leipzig 1867, with illustrations by O. Fikentscher, Chr. Sell, Aug. Beck, L. Braun, R. Geißler, O. Günther and others.
  • Franz Wiedemann : If someone goes on a journey, he can tell something. Goldonkel's travel experiences told in 4 parts of the world of youth. Dresden 1871.
  • Joseph Kürschner (ed.): The great war 1870-71 in time reports. Berlin 1895, with illustrations, u. a. by O. Fikentscher: Battle at La Force. Prussia. Rapid fire near Sedan, September 1, 1870. and battle at Courcelles, August 14, 1870.
  • Victor von Strantz (ed.): The German wars of unification. Illustrated war chronicle of the years 1864, 1866 and 1870-71 . With partly full-page illustrations, maps and plans. Leipzig, JJ Weber 1871. With woodcut illustrations a. a. (12) after O. Fikentscher.
  • Album for the cavalry and their friends. 25 military representations.

literature

  • Fikentscher, Otto . 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. 551–552 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
  • Fikentscher, Otto. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1/1, sheets 1–30: Aagaard – Heideck. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1891, p. 304 ( archive.org ).
  • Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General artist lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists. prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . Volume V (Supplements), Literary Institution Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt / Main 1921.
  • Emanuel Bénézit (ed.): Dictionnaire Critique et Documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays. vol. IV, 1976.
  • Hans Ries: Illustrations and Illustrators 1871–1914. The range of images from the Wilhelminian era. History and aesthetics of the original and printing techniques. International lexicon of illustrators. Bibliography of her work in German-language books and magazines, on picture sheets and blackboards. H. Th. Wenner, Osnabrück 1992. ISBN 3-87898-329-8 .
  • Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918. Volume 1: Abbema – Gurlitt. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7654-3009-9 , p. 355 (illustration).

Web links

Commons : Otto Clemens Fikentscher  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Illustration at the Kunsthaus Lempertz Cologne.
  2. ↑ a b This title is already given in Boetticher's painter works ... with Quatre-Bras . Here the artist was probably already wrong about the battles.
  3. ^ Dioskuren IV, August 18, 1861, p. 284
  4. ^ Album for the cavalry and their friends. Digitized version: Bayerische-Staatsbibliothek-Online, accessed on March 16, 2015 .
  5. ^ Album for the cavalry and their friends. Digitized version: University and State Library Düsseldorf, accessed on March 16, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Fikentscher, Otto Clemens
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fikentscher, Otto (the elder)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, draftsman and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 1880
Place of death Dusseldorf