Philipp Fehl

Who was Philipp Fehl?

Philipp Fehl was an artist and art historian. He was born in Austria. He 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. The Fehls lived primarily in Rome from 1990 until his death in 2000. He is buried at Prima Porta in Rome. He and Raina were married for 54 years. Raina died in 2009. They had two daughters, Katharine, "Kathy Fehl", and Caroline Coulston.