The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Fitger, Arthur Heinrich Wilhelm

FITGER, fit'gėr, Arthur Heinrich Wilhelm, German poet and painter: b. Delmenhorst, Oldenburg, 4 Oct. 1840; d. 1909. He was a pupil of Cornelius and Genelti at the Munich Academy; later he studied at Antwerp, Paris and Rome, and in 1869 established his studio in Bremen. As a painter he is known for his large decorative works. He has painted several important friezes and other decorations at Bremen and Hamburg. He wrote several successful dramas: ‘Adalbert of Bremen’ (1873), with the afterpiece ‘Here Empire! Here Rome!’ (1875); ‘The Witch’ (1878); ‘The Roses of Tyburn’ (1888). Besides these he is the author of a short epic, ‘Roland and the Rose’ (1871); and two volumes of collected poems, ‘Traveling Folks’ (1875), and ‘Winter Nights’ (1881).