Eduard Clemens Fechner (21 August 1799 – 7 February 1861) was a German portrait painter and an etcher. Fechner was born at Gross Särchen, near

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, and studied in 1814 at

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under Grassi and Retsch. In 1820 he went to

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, where he improved his style under Stieler. He worked some time for the

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, and visited Paris in 1826. He excelled in painting portraits of ladies and children; he also executed eleven etchings in a spirited manner. He died in Paris, aged 61. Fechner was the brother of experimental psychology pioneer and founder of psychophysics

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and of Clementine Wieck Fechner, who was the stepmother of

Clara Schumann Clara Josephine Schumann (; née Wieck; 13 September 1819 – 20 May 1896) was a German pianist, composer, and piano teacher. Regarded as one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era, she exerted her influence over the course of a ...

née Wieck, the famous pianist and composer, when Clementine became her father

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's second wife.

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* 1799 births 1861 deaths 19th-century German painters German male painters German portrait painters People from Żary County Artists from Saxony 19th-century German male artists {{Germany-painter-stub

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