Philipp Fehl
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Philipp Fehl at Work in 1996
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| Born |
Philipp Pinchas Fehl 9 May 1920 Vienna, Austria |
| Died | 11 September 2000 (aged 80) Rome, Italy |
| Resting place | Prima Porta Cemetery Rome, Italy |
| Nationality | Austrian |
| Known for |
Painting Pen and Ink Art Historian |
| Spouse(s) | Raina Fehl |
| Website | philippfehl |
Philipp Pinchas Fehl (May 9, 1920 – September 11, 2000) was an artist and art historian.
Fehl was born in Vienna, Austria, to Hugo Fehl and Friederike "Frieda" Fehl (née Singer). He is the older brother of Arnold Fehl. He was the cousin of the renowned ballet photographer Fred Fehl. His older cousin, Paul Eisler, attended Gymnasium, and Fehl determined that he also wanted this classical higher education for gifted students.
Fehl became a refugee in 1938, eventually emigrating to the United States in 1941. He became an artist, author and lecturer at several universities. He retired as Professor Emeritus from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana in 1990. In the same year he and his wife the classicist Raina Fehl, initiated the Cicognara Project at the Vatican Library.
From childhood on he drew and painted whenever possible.
He was accepted and attended Bundes Real Gymnasium and continued to attend school after the Anschluß. After Matura, (graduation), he emigrated to England. He worked for a time in Birmingham as an apprentice commercial artist with the firm Stagg Displays before immigrating to the United States of America in 1940, becoming a citizen in 1943.
From 1940 to 1942, Fehl attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he studied painting. In 1943, he transferred to Stanford University, where he got his B.A. in Romance Languages. In 1948, Fehl received his M.A. in History of Art from Stanford University. Fehl was at the University of Chicago from 1948 to 1952, eventually gaining a Ph.D. in the History of Art in the Committee on Social Thought in 1963.
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