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Friedrich Fehr (1862-1927). Good Friends. browse these categories for related items... All Items: Fine Art:Paintings:Oil:Europe:German: Pre 1920: item # 860247 Please refer to our stock # 2490 when inquiring.
Raymond Agler Fine Arts 16 Pleasant Street Gloucester, Massachusetts 01930 978-281-5048 $4,000 |
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| Oil on canvas, 36 x 24 inches plus ebonized frame, signed lower left. Fehr was born in Werneck, Germany and studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Kunste 1878-1884. A stipend from the sculptor Johann Martin von Wagner enabled him to travel to Italy 1885-1890 for further study. By 1890 he was again in Munich where he founded a private art school, his students including Emil Nolde. In 1899 he became a professor at the Karlsruhe Akademie where he conducted art classes until 1923. The following year he moved with his family to the picturesque Bavarian town of Polling where he died in 1927. The "Munich School" has generally been given short shrift in this country, with the laurels generally going to the light palette of the Impressionists. There were, however, those first-rank American artists (Duveneck, Currier and Chase among them) who saw the potentialities of the darker tones and employed them in their portraits and still lifes. Interestingly, Duveneck had been in Polling, where Fehr spent the last 3 years of his life, in the 1870's, where he had given art classes in an abandoned Franciscan monastery. | ||
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