18 Facts About Philipp Fehl

Philipp Pinchas Fehl was an Austrian born American artist and art historian.

Philipp Fehl was the cousin of the renowned ballet photographer Fred Fehl.

Philipp Fehl became a refugee in 1938, eventually emigrating to the United States in 1941.

Philipp Fehl became an artist, author and lecturer at several universities.

Philipp Fehl retired as Professor Emeritus from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana in 1990.

Philipp Fehl 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, Philipp Fehl attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he studied painting.

Philipp Fehl was at the University of Chicago from 1948 to 1952.

Philipp Fehl was one of the graduate students participating in the Committee on Social Thought.

In 1945 he married Raina Philipp Fehl daughter of the writer Erich Fritz Schweinburg, born in Vienna.

Philipp Fehl gives detailed descriptions of his work at the trials in the portion of his memoirs entitled "The Ghosts of Nuremberg", The Atlantic Monthly, vol.

Philipp Fehl's Master's Thesis, "A Stylistic Analysis of Some Propaganda Posters of World War II", 1948, showed the existence, and defined the formal manifestations of the international "Blut und Boden" style which governed the propaganda art of countries confronting each other in World War II.

Philipp Fehl entrusted to us an indelible testimony of the inhumanity of Nazi Europe.

Philipp Fehl spoke English with a vast vocabulary and the accent of his native Vienna, absorbing ideas and parsing them with broad learning and brilliant asides.

Philipp Fehl wrote as he spoke, with wit and passion.

Philipp Fehl started academic teaching in 1951 as a lecturer at the University of Chicago and, after holding a number of other academic appointments and receiving numerous honours, retired in 1990 as Professor Emeritus from the University of Illinois.

Philipp Fehl began to make pen and ink drawings of bird like characters dressed in the peruke and trousers of the 18th century.

Pieces of Philipp Fehl's work are owned by both private and public collections including, but not limited to the Beach Museum at Kansas State University, The American Academy in Rome, the Krannert Museum at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana and the Vatican Library.