Cuno Fischer

This article is about the painter, set designer and designer Cuno Fischer. For the philosopher see Kuno Fischer .

Cuno Fischer (born November 26, 1914 in what is now Wuppertal ; † January 14, 1973 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) was a German painter , set designer and designer .

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Alfred Friedrich Kurt (Cuno) Fischer was born on November 26, 1914 in what is now Wuppertal . He was the son of insurance salesman Alfred Eugen Fischer (1889–1960) and Elfriede Fischer, née Wegeli (1891–1964). The paternal grandfather was from Kiev . According to his father's wish, Cuno Fischer was also to become an insurance broker, while he himself initially wanted to become a musician. In 1928 the Obertertian hitchhiked to Berlin during the holidays and worked as an assistant at the Schiffbauerdamm-Theater.

From 1932 to 1935, Cuno Fischer completed an eight-semester degree in graphics, set design and painting at the Wuppertal School of Applied Arts. In the meantime he earned his living with the Salvation Army , as a circus clown and as a bar pianist . In his free time, he studied harmony .

After the National Socialists came to power, Fischer was briefly arrested for allegedly insulting Gauleiter and Minister Goebbels and placed under police supervision after his release. In 1939 he was banned from working. On June 24, 1939, Fischer married Marianne Schleberger (1914–1977), on June 1, 1942 their daughter Elke Kornelia (Nele) was born in Wuppertal. From 1939 to 1945 Fischer was a soldier in Poland, France and Russia. In the summer of 1941, Fischer was buried in Russia and has since been released from active military service.

From 1945 to 1950, Fischer lived in Berlin, where he was, among other things, a set designer at the Hebbel-Theater and set-up for the German Theater, the Kammerspiele and the Schiffbauerdamm Theater. He also founded and directed the Berlin cultural collective. In 1950 Fischer moved to Stuttgart and subsequently published journalistic and journalistic works such as art reviews, feature pages and essays.

In 1953 he became a member of a southern French gypsy clan and in the following years regularly spent long periods in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer (Camargue), where he also adopted the gypsy child Marianne Adam. In September 1963, Fischer and his family moved into a spacious studio house built according to their own plans in Murnau am Staffelsee . In 1972 Fischer became chief stage designer at the Landestheater Memmingen. Cuno Fischer died on January 14, 1973 in the hospital in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. He is buried in the cemetery in Murnau am Staffelsee.

estate

The written estate is in the archive for fine arts in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum . The greatest collector of his pictures was Hans Sachs from Nuremberg. Glass objects designed by Cuno Fischer were manufactured at Gralglas .

literature

• Claus Pese: More than just art. The archive for fine arts in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Ostfildern-Ruit 1998 ( cultural-historical walks in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum , vol. 2), p. 83.
• Brigitte Salmen: Cuno Fischer (1914–1973) . Murnau 1999 ISBN 978-3-932276-04-0

Web links

• Literature by and about Cuno Fischer in the catalog of the German National Library