3951 - Ludwig Fellner, Sant’Angelo on Ischia

Ludwig Fellner, Sant’Angelo on Ischia View across a light-filled Mediterranean rooftop landscape, watercolour over pencil, signed and dated ‘Fellner 1952’ in the lower right-hand corner and titled ‘S. Angelo Ischia", minor signs of ageing, framed behind glass, inner dimensions approx. 49 x 61 cm. Artist’s biography: German landscape painter, graphic artist and sculptor (1917 Dettenheim - 2006 Neustadt-Königsbach an der Weinstraße), spent his childhood in Nürtingen am Neckar, lived in Heidelberg from 1929, 1935-37: trained as a farmer; 1938: conscripted into the Reich Labour Service; 1939-44: served in the war in the Netherlands, Norway and Italy; 1944-47: held as a prisoner of war in Egypt; 1947: Returned to Heidelberg; studied at the Freie Akademie Mannheim in 1947; from 1948, a student at the Landeskunstschule Hamburg under Ivo Hauptmann; 1950-51 on Sylt; undertook study trips throughout Europe; participant in the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts under Oskar Kokoschka and Marcello Mascherini; further training at the Fresco School in Bolzano and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Luxembourg, 1974-1993: lecturer at the Wachenheim Adult Education Centre; member of the Palatinate Artists’ Association, the Palatinate Artists’ Cooperative, the Buslat Artists’ Guild and the Heinrich von Zügel Society; worked in Königsbach from 1962, Source: Bütow, *European Artists’ Encyclopaedia - Germany*, Wikipedia and the artist’s website.