Friedrich Fehr - Artist Info

About Friedrich Fehr

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    Friedrich Fehr (born May 24, 1862 in Werneck, † September 29, 1927 in Polling, Germany), was a German painter. He is considered a representative of historicism.

    Friedrich Fehr was born in 1862 as the son of the notary Kaspar Fehr and his wife Anna in Werneck, Lower Franconia. In Würzburg he attended the Realgymnasium and from 1878 to 1884 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. A scholarship from the Martin von Wagner Foundation enabled him to study in Italy between 1885 and 1890.

    After 1890, Friedrich Fehr settled in Munich and founded a private painting school together with Ludwig Schmid-Reutte and Paul Nauen, from which well-known artists such as Emil Nolde, Clara Rilke-Westhoff, Hans Meyer-Kassel and Erich Kuitha...

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