Ferdinand Fellner (painter)

Ferdinand Fellner (Frankfurt, 1799) was a German painter, illustrator and graphic artist. After receiving a high-class education he went to Munich to study art, and remained there from 1825 to 1831, but later on he established himself at Stuttgart and published a number of illustrations. As a painter his works are less meritorious. He died at Stuttgart in 1859. Some of the most remarkable of his designs for books are:

• The illustrations of The Seven Swabians.
• Sixteen illustrations of Don Quixote.
• The illustrations of Faust.
• Five illustrations of Wilhelm Tell.
• Illustrations of Wallenstein, The Maid of Orleans, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Burger's Lenore, Oberon, Robert, Gudrun, &c.

Among his paintings are the following:

• Burgberg. Church. The Holy Family (partly painted by Pilgram).
• Frankfort. Emperor's Saloon. Conrad I and Frederic the Beautiful.

See also

• List of German painters

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Fellner, Ferdinand". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.