Toftlund
Toftlund (german: Toftlund) is a town in South Jutland with a population of 3,276 (1. January 2023).Duchy of Schleswig
The Duchy of Schleswig ( da, Hertugdømmet Slesvig; german: Herzogtum Schleswig; nds, Hartogdom Sleswig; frr, Härtochduum Slaswik) was a duchy in Southern Jutland () covering the area between about 60 km (35 miles) north and 70 km ( ...
– June 22, 1933, in Berlin) was a German-Danish painter and sculptor.
Life
Conrad Heinrich Franz Fehr was born in the Danish village of
Toftlund
Toftlund (german: Toftlund) is a town in South Jutland with a population of 3,276 (1. January 2023).Second Schleswig War. Fehr studied from 1877 to 1881 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under the professors Gyula Benczúr, Alois Gabl, and
Ludwig von Löfftz
Ludwig von Löfftz (21 June 1845 – 3 December 1910) was a German genre and landscape painter.
Biography
He was born at Darmstadt. He was a pupil of August von Kreling and Karl Raupp at Nuremberg, then of Wilhelm von Diez at the Academy of F ...
. Long study trips to the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark and Paris followed. In 1882 he moved to Berlin, where from 1885 he taught at the drawing school of the Association of Berlin Artists.
Fehr had his debut as a sculptor in 1896 at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition, where, after completing his teaching career, he was a regular guest as a painter. In 1884 he received a bronze medal in London. After the First World War he was in Copenhagen for a long time, where he carried out various orders for portraits.
Fehr Academy
From 1892 until 1912, Fehr ran his own private academy on Lützowstrasse 82 in Berlin. Artists such as
Walter Leistikow
Walter Rudolf Leistikow (1865–1908) was a German landscape painter, graphic artist, designer and art critic.
Biography
His father was a pharmacist who owned a Kräuterlikör manufacturing plant in Kujawien that provided much of the family's ...
,
Adolf Brütt
Adolf Brütt (10 May 1855 in Husum – 6 November 1939 in Bad Berka)Husum Tourismus ...
and Gustav Eilers taught at the school.
File:Fehr'sche Kunstakademie 1897.jpg, Fehr'sche Kunstakademie 1897
Reputation
Conrad Fehr primarily made a name for himself as a teacher at his academy, but his genre pictures and religious scenes as well as the numerous portraits and landscapes show him as a remarkable artist.
Examples of works
* Vorfrühling (Tauwetter)
* Portrait of
Peter Wilhelm Forchhammer
Peter Wilhelm Forchhammer (23 October 1801 – 8 January 1894) was a German classical archaeologist born at Husum in Schleswig.
He was educated at the Lübeck gymnasium and the university of Kiel, with which he was connected for nearly 65 ye ...
(1882)
File:1887 Fehr Portrait Heinrich Sauermann anagoria.JPG, 1887 Portrait of Heinrich Sauermann
File:Karl Weierstrass 2.jpg, Portrait of Karl Weierstrass
Literature
* Heidrun Lorenzen (Hrsg.): ''Dora Koch-Stetter: Wege nach Ahrenshoop.'' Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2001, , S. 18.
* Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer: ''Kieler Künstler. Band 2: Kunstleben in der Kaiserzeit 1871–1918.'' Boyens, Heide 2016, , S. 301–308.