German-American landscape painter and member of the Hudson River School
Hermann Traugott Louis Fuechsel , also known as Füchsel or Fuchsel (August 8, 1833 – September 30, 1915), was a German-American landscape painter , and member of the Düsseldorf school and Hudson River School .
Life and work
Hermann Fuechsel was born in Braunschweig , Germany, in 1833.[ 1] He met American painters Albert Bierstadt and Worthington Whittredge while studying at the Düsseldorf Academy [ 2] under Hans Heinrich Jürgen Brandes.[ 3] He was also a pupil of Karl Friedrich Lessig .[ 4] Upon his move to the United States in 1858, he opened a studio in Appleton's building on Broadway . From 1882 to 1915, he would work from the Tenth Street Studio Building in New York, the building used by many Hudson River school painters such as Sanford Robinson Gifford .[ 5] Fuechsel was originally trained as an engraver, which in some paintings shows in his narrow range of color and crisp draftsmanship.[ 6] He was a member of the Artist's Fund Society .[ 7]
His works are held in the collections of the New-York Historical Society museum,[ 8] Hudson River Museum [ 1] and the Williams College Museum of Art .[ 9] His paintings have also been exhibited at SUNY New Paltz .[ 10] During his career, Fuechsel painted various landscapes of New York including the Hudson Valley , Lake George , the Adirondacks , and Kaaterskill Falls ; but also the Rocky Mountains .[ 11]
Fuechsel died at the Isabella Heimath in New York City on September 30, 1915.[ 12]
Selected paintings
Literature
George C. Groce, David H. Wallace: The New-York Historical Society’s Dictionary of Artists in America 1564–1860 . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1957. P. 245.
Emmanuel Bénézit: Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays . Paris: Gründ, 1976. Vol. IV, p. 550.
References
^ a b "71.29.3" . Hudson River Museum . Retrieved 2021-12-31 .
^ O'Toole, Judith H. (2005). Different views in Hudson River school painting . New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-13820-2 . OCLC 62896671 .
^ "Illustrated catalogue of the art gallery of the Southern Exposition" (PDF) .
^ Levy, Florence and American Federation of Arts (1916-01-01). American Art Annual, Volume XII, Year 1915 . American Federation of Arts.
^ Blaugrund, Annette (1982). "The Tenth Street Studio Building: A Roster, 1857–1895" . American Art Journal . 14 (2): 64–71. doi :10.2307/1594309 . ISSN 0002-7359 . JSTOR 1594309 .
^ O'Toole, Judith H. (2005). Different Views in Hudson River School Painting . Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-13820-8 .
^ Levy, Florence and American Federation of Arts (1916-01-01). American Art Annual, Volume XII, Year 1915 . American Federation of Arts.
^ "New York Historical Society – View of New York on the Bay from Staten Island" .
^ "Hermann Fuechsel" . Williams College Museum of Art . Retrieved 2022-01-01 .
^ "Fuechsel, Hermann, Cows in the River" . www.newpaltz.edu . Retrieved 2022-01-09 .
^ "At the Academy. Exhibitions of the American Water-Color Society and the New York Etching Club" . The Art Union . 1 (2): 25–28. 1884. ISSN 1948-0709 . JSTOR 20442833 .
^ Levy, Florence and American Federation of Arts (1916-01-01). American Art Annual, Volume XII, Year 1915 . American Federation of Arts.
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