Hans Peter Feddersen the Younger - Artist Info

About Hans Peter Feddersen the Younger

  • Biography

    Hans Peter Feddersen (born May 29, 1848 in Westerschnatebüll, North Friesland; † December 13, 1941 in Kleiseerkoog, today Galmsbüll, North Friesland ) was a German landscape and genre painter.

    He was the son of the portrait painter Hans Peter Feddersen the Elder; his cousin was the painter Auguste Margarethe Feddersen .

    He studied at the art academies in Düsseldorf with Oswald Achenbach from 1866 to 1871 and from 1871 in Weimar with Theodor Hagen, whom he had followed from Düsseldorf to Weimar. Study trips took him to Sylt, Masuria and Rügen. He temporarily settled in Bad Kreuznach.

    In 1870 he accompanied Hagen to Düsseldorf, where they wanted to convince the Hungarian painter Mihály Munkácsy to go to Weimar as a teach...

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