Alexander Friedrich (artist)

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Otto Robert Alexander Friedrich (born December 3, 1895 in Hamburg ; † December 28, 1968 there ) was a German etcher , wood cutter and mosaicist of early Expressionism .

Life

Friedrich was a student of Carl Otto Czeschka in Hamburg from 1913 to 1918 . He was a member of the expressionist artist group “Forces” in Hamburg, a local group of the November group (together with Kinner von Dresler , Paul Adolf Seehaus , Andreas Luksch and Peter Luksch). One of his artist friends was Johannes Wüsten , who portrayed him and dedicated his story Ywon - a story of double life to him.

His pictorial inventions, which are strongly committed to Expressionism, range between realistic portrayals of nature and bizarre fantasy. His graphic portfolios (including Faust II , Music , Incarnations , In aspectu orbis , The Stone and Heavy Industry ) are considered rare due to the low number of copies. In etching he tended to experimentally expand technical limits. He dealt with Hercules Pieterszoon Seghers and the history of gravure printing.

During the Second World War, Friedrich worked with his friend, the Hamburg architect Konstanty Gutschow .

Some of his works are in the Städtisches Museum Flensburg.

Fonts

  • Plot and form of the engraving and etching . Essen, Fredebeul & Koenen 1931.
  • Attempt on the destruction of Hamburg in 1943. Report from July – August 1943 . Hamburg, Schacht & Westrich 1963.

literature

  • Ernst Rump, Kay Rump, Maike Bruhns (eds.): The new Rump - Lexicon of the visual artists of Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area . Wachholtz Verlag GmbH, 2005, p. 130 f.
  • Volker Detlef Heydorn: Alexander Friedrich. Otto Rodewald. Heinrich Stegemann. Volume 6 of the series of publications on the history of Hamburg art. Ed .: Professional Association of Visual Artists Hamburg eV, Christians, Hamburg, 1970

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth register StA Hamburg 21, No. 3144/1895
  2. ↑ Death register StA Hamburg-Nord, No. 3622/1968
  3. ↑ Johannes Wüsten: Ywon - A story of double life . Konrad Hanf Verlag, Hamburg, 1921
  4. ↑ Maike Bruhns: Johannes Wüsten in Hamburg ( Memento from September 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Introductory lecture for the exhibition A strong talent at the Kulturhistorisches Museum Görlitz from June 8 to November 3, 2002
  5. ^ Niels Gutschow: City Destruction and Remembrance: Hamburg - Dresden - Berlin - New York . In: Jan Assmann, Franz Maciejewski, Axel Michaels (eds.): Farewell to the dead: mourning rituals in a cultural comparison . Wallstein Verlag, 2005, p. 268, ISBN 3892449511
  6. ^ Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer: Painting in Schleswig-Holstein: Catalog of the painting collection of the Flensburg City Museum . Westholsteinische Verlagsanstalt Boyens & Company, 1989, pp. 82f., ISBN 3804204678

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personal data
SURNAME Friedrich, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German etcher, wood cutter and mosaicist of early Expressionism
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1968
Place of death Hamburg