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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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