Albert Fürst (artist)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Albert Fürst (born April 20, 1920 in Homburg ; † January 12, 2014 in Düsseldorf ) was a German artist . He is considered an early representative of the German variety of informal art .

Life

The young Albert Fürst was initially only enthusiastic about the small cosmos of art that his parents offered him. The father worked as an administrative clerk and faced his son's first attempts at painting with friendly indifference. Albert Fürst copied postcards, landscapes and saints and developed a strong urge to improve. He also practiced the violin and clarinet and was in the dark for a long time about the future of his life.

After graduating from high school, he studied classical painting with Franz Doll and Martin Paatz as a KD member at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1939–1940 , but was soon drafted into the Wehrmacht . At that time he favored the miller's son Rembrandt , who took on the role of a protective demon in the mindless military. Albert Fürst wanted to be able to paint just as well as this one, but on the front in Central Russia only managed to create pen and ink drawings of a completely different style. Annelie Fürst, his first wife, recognized the documentary value of these war realisms and kept them for posterity. In 1945 she was killed in a bomb attack.

At that time Albert Fürst was braising in American captivity and had switched to atmospheric landscape watercolors. It was not until 1946 that the young widower was able to continue his studies with Wilhelm Schmurr and Heinrich Kamps . A change to the Werkkunstschule Köln brought new impressions. In Paris he supplemented his educational profile with philosophy and Romance studies for a year and came into contact for the first time with pictures by Wols , the founder of Tachism , only to take a state examination in Cologne, shocked by his untimely death in 1951 . In the same year he married Annemarie Francken-Schwann.

From 1953 Albert Fürst worked as an art teacher in the school service, including in the 1960s at the Schloss-Gymnasium Benrath and then at the Gymnasium Koblenzer Straße in Düsseldorf . In 1956/57 he was chairman of Group 53 , which enormously expanded his artistic horizons and brought larger exhibitions in Düsseldorf, Aachen, Mannheim and Eindhoven. In the late sixties he also worked as a singer, actor and director for the "Rheinische Panto Mini Oper". In 1975 the busy man took over the management of an ancient Düsseldorf art association called Malkasten , and just two years later the association was officially opened to women. But it was not until 1982 that he was able to devote himself fully to his own art after being discharged from the teaching staff .

On January 30, 2001, Fürst received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon. He lived and worked in Düsseldorf . Like many teachers of the older generation, he could not gain much from the Internet and, despite a considerable body of work, did not operate his own platform.

literature

  • Albert Fürst: painting and graphic work ; Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf, 7 September to 12 October 2003 / Ed. Werner Alberg - Düsseldorf: Stadtmuseum, 2003, ISBN 3-926895-09-8
  • Fürst, Albert: Traumzeichenschwebe , Albert Fürst - Düsseldorf: Richter, 2000
  • Fürst, Albert: Pictorial symbols in color , Albert Fürst - Ostfildern-Ruit near Stuttgart: Hatje. 1996
  • Andreas Schroyen: Albert Fürst , contribution in the commemorative publication on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Malkasten in 1998 (150 years of the Malkasten Artists' Association), Düsseldorf; Richter Verlag, 1998, pp. 128-130.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Saarland painter Albert Fürst died in Düsseldorf , accessed on February 1, 2014
  2. ↑ Künstlerlexikon Saar, Künstlerblatt Albert Fürst (PDF) ( Memento from 23 December 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Marie-Luise Otten (ed.): On the way to the avant-garde. Group 53 artists . Catalog. Museum der Stadt Ratingen 2003, p. 206.
  4. ↑ Information from the Federal President's Office
personal data
SURNAME Prince, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Homburg
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 2014
Place of death Dusseldorf