Lot 5: Friedrich Fehr 1862-1927 Prussian Soldier Painting

Nice image depicting a Prussian Ulan Officer. Signed as shown. Measures 16" by 14.5" with the frame and 10" x 8.5" inside the frame. 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 Kuithan emerged . (In 1897, Friedrich Fehr, the then 29-year-old Berta Roloff marries 1868 - 1957 ). In 1897, Fehr received a call to the Karlsruhe Academy . From April to July 1899 Friedrich Fehr taught drawing and painting based on a living model at the women's academy of the Munich Artists' Association and in the same year followed the call of professor at the Karlsruhe Academy, where he led the painting class until it was closed in 1923. Wladimir Lukianowitsch von Zabotin , Wilhelm Hempfing , Margarethe von Reinken and Alexander Kanoldt were among his students during his time in Karlsruhe. From 1904 to 1919 he was also the head of the figurative painting class at the Karlsruhe School of Female Artists . After his retirement, Fehr and his family moved to Polling in 1924 , where he lived until his death on September 29, 1927. Friedrich Fehr is buried in the cemetery of the Collegiate Church of the Holy Cross in Polling .