Heinrich Petersen-Angeln

Heinrich Petersen - Fishing ( born April 4, 1850 in Wester wood, fishing, † April 23, 1906 in Dusseldorf ) was a German painter.

Life and work

Heinrich Petersen - fishing was born as Heinrich Wilhelm Petersen in Westerholzmuehle on the Flensburg Fjord son of a guest and farmer. The name of his birth additional landscape fishing he took in 1883 in Dusseldorf, as there seemed another painter named Heinrich Petersen ( this was called from now on Heinrich Petersen -Flensburg ). After a painting apprenticeship and its use as a soldier in the Franco-German War he attended from 1873 the Berlin Academy of Art, where he among other things, took with Karl Gussow lessons. Between 1879 and 1883 he studied at the Art Academy in Dusseldorf at the landscape painter Eugene Dückerstieg.

Petersen - fishing is primarily known as a marine painter and creator atmospheric harbor views. His motives, he initially found increasingly on the Baltic Sea, from 1882 to the Dutch North Sea coast where harbor views of Vlissingen and Harlingen emerged. He was a member from 1882 to the artists' colony Ekensund where every year local and foreign artists met, there to test the possibilities of plein air painting. Further study trips took him to Belgium, France, Italy and Norway.

Until well into the 1890s into Petersen - fishing was a highly sought after artist who showed his pictures to major art exhibitions in Germany and came by selling to a certain prosperity. He met the conservative tastes of its customers and its success is considered as a phenomenon of the period.