Fritz Stoltenberg

[[File:Fritz Stoltenberg (1855-1921) by Oscar Björck.jpg|thumb|[[Oscar Björck]]: Fritz Stoltenberg, sketched in 1884]] '''Fritz Stoltenberg''' (7 April 1855 -13 November 1921) was a German landscape and [[marine art|marine painter]]. After a summer with the [[Skagen Painters]] in 1884, he returned to Kiel where he painted and sketched the old town and the harbor, publishing many of his illustrations in local magazines.

==Early life== Born in 1855 as the son of a sea captain in the north German town of [[Kiel]], by the age of 17 Stoltenberg had already demonstrated his artistic talents with sketches of his home town and its idyllic surroundings. Thanks to his studies at the academies of [[Weimar]], [[Munich]] and [[Kassel]], he became a skilled draftsman and landscape painter, supplemented by extensive travels to Italy, Algeria, France, Norway, Belgium and the Netherlands.<ref name=kiel>[https://www.kiel.de/kultur/museum/_archivveranstaltung.php?id=357&view=archiv "Ausstellungarchiv: Fritz Stoltenberg (1855–1921). Ein Landschafts- und Marinemaler aus Kiel"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029195215/https://www.kiel.de/kultur/museum/_archivveranstaltung.php?id=357&view=archiv |date=29 October 2013 }}, Sdat- & Schifffahrtsmuseum, Kiel. {{in lang|de}} Retrieved 24 October 2013.</ref>

==Career== [[File:SMS Zähringen 01.jpg|thumb|350px|The [[SMS Zähringen]] on Maneuvers]] In 1882, Stoltenberg became associated with the painters who gathered each summer in Egernsund on the north coast of [[Flensburg Firth]] to paint and sketch in the open air. He was the only Egernsund artist to join the [[Skagen Painters]] in the far north of [[Jutland]], [[Denmark]], arriving in [[Skagen]] in 1884. There his painting benefitted from his associations with [[P.S. Krøyer]], [[Michael Ancher]] and [[Oscar Björck]].<ref name=kiel/> It is believed his photographs of a lunch in the garden of the Anchers house on Markvej in Skagen in 1884 may have served P.S. Krøyer as a basis for his painting ''[[Hip, Hip, Hurrah!]]''.<ref>[http://www.skagensmuseum.dk/en/exhibitions/former-exhibitions/painting-ones-private-life/ "Painting one’s private life. The Skagen artists and the intimate painting"], Skagens Museum. Retrieved 24 October 2013.</ref><ref>[http://www.skagensmuseum.dk/udstillinger/tidligere-udstillinger/kroeyer-i-internationalt-lys/skagen-i-1880erne-og-90erne/ "Skagen i 1880'erne og 90'erne"], Skagens Museum. {{in lang|da}} Retrieved 24 October 2013.</ref>

After making a name for himself as a ''plein air'' painter, in 1889 Stoltenberg married Anna Scharenberg from a well-to-do Hamburg family, settling in his home town of Kiel. There he painted scenes of the city and its harbor, publishing some 2,000 illustrations, mainly engravings, in the more popular weeklies of the day. Of particular note are his sketches of the old town and the fishing village of Alt Ellerbek, not to mention his illustrations of the latest developments in marine engineering. He also painted the German fleet and its crews sailing on the [[Kieler Förde|Kiel Firth]].<ref name=kiel/>

In 1894, together with [[Georg Burmester]], [[Hans Olde]] and [[Julius Fürst]], he founded the Schleswig-Holstein Cultural Association which he chaired until 1900. In 1914, he retired to [[Schönberg, Plön|Schönberg]] where he died in 1921.<ref name=kiel/>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Literature== *Tellre Wolf-Timm, Doris Tillmann: ''Fritz Stoltenberg – Ein Landschafts- und Marinemaler aus Kiel'', Bossen, Heizte, 2009, {{ISBN|978-3-8042-1269-5}} {{in lang|de}} *{{cite book|last1=Tillmann|first1=Doris|last2=Wolf-Timm|first2=Telse|last3=Kramer|first3=Lisa|author4=Wolf, Mareike |title=Fritz Stoltenberg (1855–1921): ein Landschafts- und Marinemaler aus Kiel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-xBJAQAAIAAJ|year=2008|publisher=Boyens|isbn=978-3-8042-1269-5|language=de}}

==External links== {{Commonscat|Fritz Stoltenberg}} * [https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/person/gnd/117287202 Entry on Stoltenberg] @ the [[Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek]] {{Skagen Painters}}

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