Fritz Greve

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Self portrait

Fritz Greve (born August 17, 1863 in Malchin ; † April 2, 1931 there ) was a German painter and university professor .

Life

In his home town of Malchin, he made his first handicraft experience with his father Wilhelm Greve , who at the time worked as a court and decorative painter. After school and military service, he left his homeland to begin studying drawing. After studying at the Dresden School of Applied Arts , the Frankfurt am Main School of Applied Arts and the Berlin Art Academy , Fritz Greve was professor at the Royal Art School in Berlin from 1902 to 1928. He lived in Berlin-Charlottenburg , where he had rented a studio in Berliner Straße 62. The correspondence and various documents from this time are kept at the Berlin University of the Arts .

Portrait of Anna Wandschneider

In addition to his teaching activities, Greve painted portraits, still lifes and landscapes, altarpieces and frescoes (Waren / Müritz, Sternberg, Grabow and Hohen Mistorf). He is considered the most important Mecklenburg church painter of his time. In 1913 he created his most successful mural “Jesus and his disciples”.

In September 1913 he completed the monumental triumphal arch mural “Ascension of Christ” in the Marienkirche in Waren (Müritz) in just seven weeks . When the church was redesigned in 1963, this painting was painted over out of theological concerns and has since been hidden under three layers of paint. The inscription in gold letters “See, I am with you every day until the end of the world” ( Mt. 28, 20) can be read again since it was exposed in 2000. By coincidence, at the end of 2000, the original artwork was also found during roof work in the painter's house. The parish then decided to have the wall painting exposed again. The restoration took over ten years and cost around 100,000 euros. In May 2013 the painting was handed over in the year of the 100th anniversary.

In the 1920s, Fritz Greve was known as the “gray eminence” of the Mecklenburg painters. He sent numerous important art exhibitions, including the Great Berlin Art Exhibition , and exhibited in the Munich Glass Palace and the Dresden Art Association, in Rostock and Schwerin. He was also extremely successful as an illustrator of numerous German heroic sagas and stories from Mecklenburg folk life.

In 1928 Greve returned from Berlin to his beloved homeland and founded a painting school in his native Malchin.

Fritz Greve died in 1931 in his retirement home built around 1910 in Jettchenshof near Malchin.

Works

Parliament at the Sagsdorfer Bridge

Further works can be found in the churches in Waren (Müritz), Sternberg and in numerous museums, including the Landesmuseen Schwerin and Rostock and the local museums in Teterow and Malchin.

Illustrations

  • Karl Beyer: Gretenwäschen. Award-winning stories from Mecklenburg folk life. (with illustrations by Fritz Greve) Bahn, Schwerin i. M. 1919.

Honors

The grammar school in Malchin has been named after him since mid-2006.

Web links

Commons : Fritz Greve  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Celebration service as thanks for the restored mural. In: Ostsee-Zeitung of May 9, 2013, accessed on January 25, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Greve, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Malchin
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1931
Place of death Malchin