Otto Fikentscher

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Otto Hermann Fikentscher (born July 6, 1862 in Zwickau , † February 26, 1945 in Baden-Baden ) was a German painter, etcher , lithographer and sculptor . He can easily be confused with the painter Otto Clemens Fikentscher , who has almost the same name , and there is no known relationship.

Signature Otto Fikenscher

Life

Swan Lake (1900)

The son of the chemical manufacturer Friedrich Christian Fikentscher and his second wife Rosalie, geb. Mensing (1826–1895), attended the Zwickau high school. After a sculptor teaching studied Fikentscher in 1880 at the School of Applied Arts in Dresden and from 1884 at the Munich Academy . In 1888 he followed his teacher Hermann Baisch to the Grand Ducal Badische Kunstschule Karlsruhe . In 1891 he bought the Augustenburg in Grötzingen , set up his apartment there on the first floor and gave the Grötzingen painters' colony a place to stay. In the same year he married the painter Jenny Nottebohm . Her daughter Dorothee Fischer (1894–1981) composed songs.

He traveled to Hungary , Romania ( Transylvania ) and North America . Two stays on the Baltic coast on Hiddensee are documented for 1888 and 1896.

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Fikentscher's most important theme was the depiction of animals , often in their natural surroundings, partly as oil paintings , partly as watercolors , but often also as lithographs or etchings.

Works / exhibitions

Otto Fikentscher was represented several times with his works at the great Berlin art exhibitions , the international art exhibition in Düsseldorf in 1904, in the Munich Glass Palace and at the artist union exhibition in Karlsruhe in 1906.

  • Buffalo herd, autumn evening (deer), spring evening (deer), buzzard with snake, beach heron, cows by the water, dead sixteen, moonlit night, buffalo siesta.

Honors

  • In 1959, Fikentscherstrasse in Grötzingen, now the easternmost part of Karlsruhe , was named after him.
  • Between Grötzingen and Jöhlingen there is an Otto Fikentscher path and the Fikentscher hut.

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Fikentscher:  Fikentscher, Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 144 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Entry on Otto Fikentscher, Sexta 1872, Gymnasium Zwickau. forum.ahnenforschung.net, accessed on March 15, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Registration of Otto Fikentscher, register book 1884. Academy of Fine Arts Munich, accessed on March 15, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Ernst Otto Bräunche (ed.), Augustenburg Castle, Karlsruhe City Archive, p. 31 ff limited preview in the Google book search
  5. ↑ Ruth Negendanck : Hiddensee: the special island for artists. Edition Fischerhuder art book 2005, ISBN 978-3-88132-288-1 . P. 73.
  6. ↑ Property Office Karlsruhe: Street names in Karlsruhe. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 12, 2019 ; accessed on March 6, 2018 .
  7. ^ Otto Fikentscher - Stadtwiki Karlsruhe. In: stadtwiki.net. August 5, 2011, accessed December 29, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Fikentscher, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fikentscher, Otto Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, etcher, lithographer and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwickau
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1945
Place of death Baden-Baden