Albert Ferenz

Albert Ferenz (born December 2, 1907 in Groß Hoschütz , † March 16, 1994 in Munich ) was a German painter and restorer from the Sudetenland.

Life

Albert Ferenz first attended elementary school, then the German citizen school in Velké Hoštice. Between 1921 and 1930 he did an apprenticeship in decorative painting under Raimund Alt, and after passing the journeyman's examination, from 1926 he studied art at the Wroclaw School of Applied Arts . There he received lessons from Gebhard Uttinger and Ludwig Peter Kowalski. Ferenz strove to train with the expressionist professor Otto Mueller , but had to continue his studies elsewhere because of the artist's sudden death. From 1931 to 1936 he went to the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, where he was taught general painting by Hans Larwin , restoration by Robert Eigenberger , and etching by Hans Martin. He also learned the restoration of frescoes from Eduard Kling .

Ferenz lived between 1936 and 1942 as a freelance artist in Opava (Troppau). Here he worked on the restoration of the frescoes by Josef Matthias Lassler and Franz Anton Sebasini and in the Opava Jesuit Church.

During his military service between 1942 and 1945, Ferenz was taken prisoner by the Soviets. Then he returned to Vienna. Among other things, he restored paintings in the Alte Galerie at the Landesmuseum Joanneum in Graz .

In 1952 Ferenz moved to Munich , where he founded the artists' association The Independents in 1958 . He has received several awards, including the City of Munich's Water Lily Prize for Fine Art in 1980, the Upper Silesian Culture Prize of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1980 and the City of Munich's Schwabing Art Prize for Painting and Graphics in 1987 . In 1979 he was appointed a full member of the Sudeten German Academy of Sciences and Arts , class of arts and art studies.

Ferenz died in 1994 after a serious illness; his early work is lost today.

Web links

• Albert Ferenz website
• Article about Ferenz , Schlesische Nachrichten , 2005 (PDF file; 375 kB)