Ferdinand Fellner (painter)

Ferdinand Fellner ( born May 12, 1799 in Frankfurt am Main, † September 4, 1859 in Stuttgart ) was a German painter and draftsman.

Life

Fellner attended from 1806 to 1817, the Frankfurt School. He then studied in Heidelberg (1817-1820) and Göttingen (1820-1824) law and settled in 1825 in his hometown as a lawyer down. This profession he never exercised. His inclination to artistic activity following, he went to Munich 1825-1831, where the Academy teacher Peter von Cornelius exerted a strong effect on him. Fellner advocated for thorough costume and architecture studies for the purpose of history painting and practiced by the fact significant influence, as artists like Moritz von Schwind had consulted with him in costume questions. In 1831 he moved to Stuttgart, where he died in 1859.

Work

Fellner was preferably worked as an illustrator (for example, twelve drawings on the history of seven Swabians ), but also painted in oil. For the emperor at Frankfurt's Römer he painted Konrad I and Frederick the Handsome, to the Church in Castle Hill an altarpiece.

Ferdinand Fellner's artistic estate is located in Frankfurt's Städel.