Conrad Fehr

Conrad Fehr (born November 19, 1854 in Toftlund, Duchy of Schleswig; died 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 in 1854, ten years before it became a part of German Prussia after the 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. 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[1].

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, Adolf Brütt and Gustav Eilers taught at the school[2].

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
  • 1887 Portrait of Heinrich Sauermann
  • Portrait of Karl Weierstrass

Literature
  • Heidrun Lorenzen (Hrsg.): Dora Koch-Stetter: Wege nach Ahrenshoop. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-931836-65-7, S. 18.
  • Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer: Kieler Künstler. Band 2: Kunstleben in der Kaiserzeit 1871–1918. Boyens, Heide 2016, ISBN 978-3-8042-1442-2, S. 301–308.


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References
  1. Thieme, Ulrich; Becker, Felix; Willis, Frederick Charles; Vollmer, Hans (June 26, 1907). "Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Kunstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart". Leipzig : Seemann – via Internet Archive.
  2. Zieger, Angela (May 2, 2019). ""Ich bereite vor: eine Ausstellung nach meinem Tode.": Zum grafischen, malerischen und kalligrafischen Werk von F.H. Ernst Schneidler". BoD – Books on Demand – via Google Books.
  3. ""Conrad Heinrich Franz Fehr: Vorfrühling (Tauwetter)"". Conrad Heinrich Franz Fehr: Vorfrühling (Tauwetter).
  4. ""Conrad Heinrich Franz Fehr: Peter Wilhelm Forchhammer"". Conrad Heinrich Franz Fehr: Peter Wilhelm Forchhammer.
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