Hermann Fuechsel (1833-1915) German/American

Hermann Fuechsel is considered an German/American landscape painter and engraver. He was born in Brunswick (Germany) August 8, 1833 and died December 30, 1915. He began his formal art studies with landscape painter Hans Heinrich Jurgen Brandes (1803-1868) and with landscape painter and engraver Karl Friedrich Lessing (1808-1880) at the Dusseldorf Academy. While attending the Academy he would meet American artists Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902), Worthington Whittredge (1820-1910) and Emanuel Leutze (1816-1868).

In 1858, Hermann Fuechsel would travel to the United States, accompanying  Albert Bierstadt on his return trip to New Bedford. Upon arrival in New York City, Fuechsel opened a studio in Appleton’s Building at 839 Broadway. He would began exhibiting at the Pennsylvania Academy in 1860 and continued to exhibit there until 1888. He also exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum from 1860 to 1869 and in New York at the National Academy of Design from 1861-1900.

As a print maker and engraver, Fuechsel produced steel engravings his Hudson River, White Mountain, Lake George, Catskill and Adirondack landscapes. He produced engravings Albert Bierstadt and several other American landscape painters thus becoming one of the America’s most published artists.   

Listed:
American Art Annual, Xll, obit
E. Benezit, Vol. IV, pg. 551.
The Boston Athenaeum, Art Exhibition Index 1827-1784, R F. Perkins Jr. & Wm. Gavin
Index of Artist, Mallet
Exhibition National Academy of Design 1807-1870, Vol. I, Maria Naylor
Exhibition National Academy of Design 1861-1900, Vol. II, Peter Hastings Faulk
The Annual Exhibition Record of the PAFA 1807-1870, Anna Wells Rutledge
Thieme-Becker
Antiques (June 1935), 229, repro
Dictionary of Marine Artists, Dorothy E.R. Brewington
Museum:
Walker Art Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
New York Historical Society, New York, NY