Alfred Fuchs (painter, 1877)

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Alfred Emil Karl Ludwig Christian Fuchs (born July 2, 1877 in Bornich , † May 23, 1954 in Sankt Goarshausen ) was a German painter and sculptor. He signed with “A. Fox".

Life

Alfred Fuchs was the third of eleven children of the pastor August Fuchs and Auguste, née. Stückrath. He attended the grammar school Philippinum Weilburg , where his father had already passed the school leaving examination. He then studied sculpture at the Städelsche Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt am Main and painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . In Karlsruhe, Fuchs was a student of landscape painting by Wilhelm Trübner , who recommended him to Wilhelm Leibl . This was followed by a year-long stay in Munich, where the public found little pleasure in his expressionist painting style. Painting studies on the Middle Rhine , in the Siebengebirge and in the Netherlands followed.

From 1907 he had a studio in Berlin-Wedding , later in Berlin-Friedenau . There he was supported by Max Liebermann . With him and with Ernst Ludwig Kirchner he had joint exhibitions at times. At the invitation of the Norwegian Navy , a four-month stay in Norway and on the Svalbard follows . Production of figurative sculptures and reliefs in Berlin and Görlitz . He operated landscape painting in the Spreewald , the Kohlfurter - and the Lüneburg Heath , in Tyrol , in the Karawanken and in northern Bohemia . From 1916 to 1918 he took part in the war . In 1917 he received the 2nd prize for "Field Gray Artist" for a cherry blossom picture in Berlin, which depicts cherry trees in blossom as a motif.

In 1920 Fuchs got his first marriage to the solo violinist Dolores Maass in Berlin. From 1922 he worked as an assistant accountant at the Berlin-Wedding tax office and was able to work again as a freelance artist from 1924 after the inflation had ended . He opened a second studio in Görlitz and was also the manager of his wife, who at the time made numerous radio appearances. In the meantime, Fuchs owned a larger sailing ship on the Baltic Sea, which he used for summer stays while sailing and painting on Rügen , Usedom , Wolgast , Wolin , Sellin , Ziegenort and Kolberg . There were also painting excursions in Hersbrucker Schweiz and in the Fichtelgebirge . In 1936 the artist couple Fuchs divorced and in 1938 Alfred Fuchs went into a second marriage in Groß Gaglow with the craftsperson and watercolor painter Elfriede, nee. Klautke, whom he met in Miedzyzdroje in 1937. A move to Cottbus followed, where Fuchs set up a new painting studio to replace the abandoned studios in Berlin and Görlitz.

After the bombing raids in 1942, in which the family's house was damaged, they moved to Johannesberg in the Silesian county of Glatz . From there, Alfred Fuchs was able to sell paintings to East Germany until 1944. On April 20, 1945, the family fled to his youngest brother in Neutras , where they lived in a holiday cabin for five months. After another six months in Lehendorf , Fuchs received the permit to move to Sankt Goarshausen an der Loreley in the spring of 1946 . Several solo exhibitions and joint exhibitions with other artists followed, but they were not very successful. Until 1951 he therefore often exchanged pictures for other goods. Although he had severe stomach problems and suffered from rheumatism , he continued to paint, especially landscape motifs from the region ( Weisel , Bornich , Kestert , Dörscheid ).

Alfred Fuchs died on May 23, 1954 of the consequences of a broken rib which he sustained in a fall earlier this month. He was buried in the cemetery in Sankt Goarshausen and left behind his wife and a son (* 1940).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fuchs, Alfred. In: Paul Pfisterer, Claire Pfisterer: Signaturenlexikon , Walter de Gruyter, 1999, p. 221, F 576. ISBN 3-11014937-0 ( limited preview in Google book search)
  2. ^ Fuchs, Alfred EKL: In: August Schnell, Hans-Georg Böhme: Matriculation of the grammar school Philippinum zu Wielburg, 1540-1940. With student list 1940–1950 , volume 1, p. 79, no. 1670. ( limited preview in Google book search)
  3. ↑ Initiative für Bornich No. 19, March 2016, p. 19 ( Memento from January 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Initiative für Bornich No. 20, July 2016, p. 16 ( Memento from January 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Fuchs, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fuchs, Alfred Emil Karl Ludwig Christian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Bornich
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1954
Place of death Sankt Goarshausen