Hans Peter Feddersen

Woman at the Hearth, 1877

The painter Hans Peter Feddersen, who received his education at the art academies of Düsseldorf and Weimar, always felt a close bond with North Frisia. He moved permanently to Kleiserkoog, near the town of Niebüll, in 1885, but he had already repeatedly engaged with themes from his Frisian homeland before that. This painting from 1877 provides a glimpse inside a Frisian kitchen, where we see a woman in a dark bonnet, wide brown skirt and blue apron bending towards the large pots resting on the f...

Signature: H. P. Feddersen, lower left

Numbering: [...] 498, backside, on stretcher

Katharina Feddersen (1864–1957, Nichte von H. P. Feddersen, seitdem in Familienbesitz); MKdW (2024, gestiftet von einer Nachfahrin).
WVZ Online: http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~bochmann/MalerFeddersen/index.html, bereitgestellt von Gregor von Bochmann, Kat. F0253.
[Weiterführende Literatur] Dorothee Rietz: Hans Peter Feddersen. Ein Maler zwischen Tradition und Moderne, Husum 1998.
[Weiterführende Literatur] Hans Peter Feddersen. Von Luft und Licht. Von Wind und Wolken, Ausst.-Kat. Museum Kunst der Westküste, Alkersum/Föhr, hrsg. von Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen, Heide 2015.

Hans Peter Feddersen (1848 - 1941)

Woman at the Hearth

1877

Oil on canvas

53 x 40 cm

Human

Inv.-Nr. 1 FED 15_DPL

Museum Kunst der Westküste

Access 2024

Not on display