# Fritz Stoltenberg

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German painter

[Oscar Björck](/source/Oscar_Bj%C3%B6rck): Fritz Stoltenberg, sketched in 1884

**Fritz Stoltenberg** (7 April 1855 -13 November 1921) was a German landscape and [marine painter](/source/Marine_art). After a summer with the [Skagen Painters](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Weimar), [Munich](/source/Munich) and [Kassel](/source/Kassel), he became a skilled draftsman and landscape painter, supplemented by extensive travels to Italy, Algeria, France, Norway, Belgium and the Netherlands.[1]

## Career

The [SMS Zähringen](/source/SMS_Z%C3%A4hringen) on Maneuvers

In 1882, Stoltenberg became associated with the painters who gathered each summer in Egernsund on the north coast of [Flensburg Firth](/source/Flensburg_Firth) to paint and sketch in the open air. He was the only Egernsund artist to join the [Skagen Painters](/source/Skagen_Painters) in the far north of [Jutland](/source/Jutland), [Denmark](/source/Denmark), arriving in [Skagen](/source/Skagen) in 1884. There his painting benefitted from his associations with [P.S. Krøyer](/source/P.S._Kr%C3%B8yer), [Michael Ancher](/source/Michael_Ancher) and [Oscar Björck](/source/Oscar_Bj%C3%B6rck).[1] 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!](/source/Hip%2C_Hip%2C_Hurrah!)*.[2][3]

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 [Kiel Firth](/source/Kieler_F%C3%B6rde).[1]

In 1894, together with [Georg Burmester](/source/Georg_Burmester), [Hans Olde](/source/Hans_Olde) and [Julius Fürst](/source/Julius_F%C3%BCrst), he founded the Schleswig-Holstein Cultural Association which he chaired until 1900. In 1914, he retired to [Schönberg](/source/Sch%C3%B6nberg%2C_Pl%C3%B6n) where he died in 1921.[1]

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-kiel_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-kiel_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-kiel_1-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-kiel_1-3) ["Ausstellungarchiv: Fritz Stoltenberg (1855–1921). Ein Landschafts- und Marinemaler aus Kiel"](https://www.kiel.de/kultur/museum/_archivveranstaltung.php?id=357&view=archiv) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20131029195215/https://www.kiel.de/kultur/museum/_archivveranstaltung.php?id=357&view=archiv) 29 October 2013 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine), Sdat- & Schifffahrtsmuseum, Kiel. (in German) Retrieved 24 October 2013.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Painting one’s private life. The Skagen artists and the intimate painting"](http://www.skagensmuseum.dk/en/exhibitions/former-exhibitions/painting-ones-private-life/), Skagens Museum. Retrieved 24 October 2013.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Skagen i 1880'erne og 90'erne"](http://www.skagensmuseum.dk/udstillinger/tidligere-udstillinger/kroeyer-i-internationalt-lys/skagen-i-1880erne-og-90erne/), Skagens Museum. (in Danish) Retrieved 24 October 2013.

## Literature

- Tellre Wolf-Timm, Doris Tillmann: *Fritz Stoltenberg – Ein Landschafts- und Marinemaler aus Kiel*, Bossen, Heizte, 2009, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-3-8042-1269-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3-8042-1269-5) (in German)

- Tillmann, Doris; Wolf-Timm, Telse; Kramer, Lisa; Wolf, Mareike (2008). [*Fritz Stoltenberg (1855–1921): ein Landschafts- und Marinemaler aus Kiel*](https://books.google.com/books?id=-xBJAQAAIAAJ) (in German). Boyens. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-3-8042-1269-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3-8042-1269-5).

## External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to [Fritz Stoltenberg](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Fritz_Stoltenberg).

- [Entry on Stoltenberg](https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/person/gnd/117287202) @ the [Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek](/source/Deutsche_Digitale_Bibliothek)

v t e Skagen Painters Associated landmarks Skagens Museum Brøndums Hotel Michael and Anna Ancher's House Drachmann's House Early visitors Christian Blache Vilhelm Melbye Johan Peter Raadsig Martinus Rørbye Main group of painters Anna Ancher Michael Ancher Oscar Björck Viggo Johansen Christian Krohg Johan Krouthén Marie Krøyer P. S. Krøyer (paintings of Marie) Carl Locher Karl Madsen Thorvald Niss Julius Paulsen Eilif Peterssen Associated painters Jørgen Aabye Helga Ancher G. F. Clement Tupsy Clement Wilhelm von Gegerfelt Ella Heide Einar Hein Ludvig Karsten Vilhelm Kyhn Frederik Lange Charles Lundh Anna Palm de Rosa Wilhelm Peters Julius Runge Adrian Stokes Marianne Stokes Fritz Stoltenberg Frits Thaulow Laurits Tuxen Johannes Wilhjelm J. F. Willumsen Other associates Hugo Alfvén Georg Brandes Degn Brøndum Holger Drachmann Heinrich Hirschsprung Ulrik Plesner Henrik Pontoppidan Alba Schwartz Notable paintings Men of Skagen on a Summer Evening in Fair Weather (1848) Launching the Boat. Skagen (1884) Will He Round the Point? (1885) Hip, Hip, Hurrah! (1888) Hunters of Skagen (1898) Sunlight in the Blue Room (1891) Summer Evening at Skagen. The Artist's Wife and Dog by the Shore (1892) Summer Evening on Skagen's Southern Beach (1893) Roses (1893) Leiv Eirikson Discovering America (1893) Summer Evening at Skagen Beach – The Artist and his Wife (1899) Harvesters (1905) Midsummer Eve Bonfire on Skagen Beach (1906) The North Sea in Stormy Weather (1909)

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