Herman Fuechsel

Herman Fuechsel (1833-1915)

German/American artist Hermann Fuechsel is noted as both a 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 traveled to the United States to join fellow students. Upon arrival in New York City, Fuechsel opened a studio in Appleton’s Building at 839 Broadway. In 1882, Fuechsel moved his studio to The Studio Building at 15 Tenth Street where Bierstadt, Whittredge, Gifford and several other artists had their studios. He began exhibiting at the Pennsylvania Academy in 1860 and continued to exhibit there until 1888. He 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 of the Hudson River, White Mountain, Lake George, Catskill and Adirondack landscapes. He produced engravings for Albert Bierstadt and several other American landscape painters thus becoming one of the America’s most published artists.