Fritz Stoltenberg (7 April 1855 -13 November 1921) was a German landscape andmarine painter. After a summer with theSkagen 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.

Born in 1855 as the son of a sea captain in the north German town ofKiel, 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 ofWeimar,Munich andKassel, he became a skilled draftsman and landscape painter, supplemented by extensive travels to Italy, Algeria, France, Norway, Belgium and the Netherlands.^[1]

In 1882, Stoltenberg became associated with the painters who gathered each summer in Egernsund on the north coast ofFlensburg Firth to paint and sketch in the open air. He was the only Egernsund artist to join theSkagen Painters in the far north ofJutland,Denmark, arriving inSkagen in 1884. There his painting benefitted from his associations withP.S. Krøyer,Michael Ancher andOscar Björck.^[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 paintingHip, Hip, Hurrah!.^[2][3]

After making a name for himself as aplein 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 theKiel Firth.^[1]

In 1894, together withGeorg Burmester,Hans Olde andJulius Fürst, he founded the Schleswig-Holstein Cultural Association which he chaired until 1900. In 1914, he retired toSchönberg where he died in 1921.^[1]

• Tellre Wolf-Timm, Doris Tillmann:Fritz Stoltenberg – Ein Landschafts- und Marinemaler aus Kiel, Bossen, Heizte, 2009,ISBN 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 (in German). Boyens.ISBN 978-3-8042-1269-5.

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