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

References

  1. ^ a b "71.29.3". Hudson River Museum. Retrieved 2021-12-31.
  2. ^ O'Toole, Judith H. (2005). Different views in Hudson River school painting. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-13820-2. OCLC 62896671.
  3. ^ "Illustrated catalogue of the art gallery of the Southern Exposition" (PDF).
  4. ^ Levy, Florence and American Federation of Arts (1916-01-01). American Art Annual, Volume XII, Year 1915. American Federation of Arts.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ O'Toole, Judith H. (2005). Different Views in Hudson River School Painting. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-13820-8.
  7. ^ Levy, Florence and American Federation of Arts (1916-01-01). American Art Annual, Volume XII, Year 1915. American Federation of Arts.
  8. ^ "New York Historical Society – View of New York on the Bay from Staten Island".
  9. ^ "Hermann Fuechsel". Williams College Museum of Art. Retrieved 2022-01-01.
  10. ^ "Fuechsel, Hermann, Cows in the River". www.newpaltz.edu. Retrieved 2022-01-09.
  11. ^ "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.
  12. ^ 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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