Arnold Fiedler

Arnold André Leonhard Fiedler (* March 1, 1900 in Hamburg ; † March 6, 1985 ibid) was a painter and graphic artist of expressive realism , surrealism and abstract art . He was a member of the Hamburg Secession .

Education and artistic career

From 1916 to 1918, until he was drafted into the military, he attended the arts and crafts school at Lerchenfeld in Hamburg, where he took lessons from Arthur Illies and Julius Wohlers . Fiedler moved into his first own studio in 1920 in a warehouse in the port of Hamburg. He took part in exhibitions since 1919. Since 1922 was a member of the Hamburg Artists 'Association from 1832 and the Hamburg Artists' Association .

For further training he went to Munich from 1925 to 1929 to the progressive painting school of Hans Hofmann . This was made possible financially by a scholarship from the Erdwin-Amsinck Foundation. From Munich he traveled to Italy to study .

From 1929 to 1931 he was employed as a teacher in the atelier of Hans Hofmann, in whose absence Fiedler directed the atelier. In 1930 he made a trip to Paris.

Between 1930 and 1936 Fiedler had several solo exhibitions in Hamburg. In 1931 he took part as a guest at the 10th exhibition of the Hamburg Secession . A year later he became a member of the artists' association.

The time of National Socialism

In the years after the National Socialists came to power in 1933, it became increasingly difficult for him to endure the reprisals to which he was exposed as a modern artist. The Hamburg Secession had dissolved as a reaction to the political pressure on its members, especially those with a Jewish background. An exhibition ban had been imposed on him himself. In the action degenerate art , officials removed 16 of his works from the Hamburger Kunsthalle alone and confiscated them.

The coloring of his paintings became a few degrees darker during this time. Deserted winter landscapes appeared more and more in his works. In the end, the artist could no longer stand the German conditions and emigrated to Paris in 1938 . He was interned there from 1939 to 1940. In 1943 he was called up for the so-called Volkssturm and a year later he was taken prisoner by the Americans .

After the war

In 1946 Fiedler was able to return to Hamburg and process his war experiences in his work. He actively worked on the reconstruction of Hamburg. He was a member and teacher at " Der Baukreis ", an art school that combines all artistic genres.

At the beginning of the fifties he began to occupy himself with Informel , which dominated the western art scene after the Second World War . During this time he repeatedly traveled to Paris. In 1959 he went to the city for ten years, where modernity began. Here he turned even more to the new art direction of Informel and detached himself more and more from the representational.

In Paris he created independent drawings and graphic works. In their playful lightness and consistent abstraction, they seemed to be inspired by the open atmosphere of the École de Paris , which was looking for new forms of expression . The new avant-garde living in Paris, made up of artists of various nationalities, inspired Fiedler with their abstract works to “leap” into non-representationalism.

Anonymous urn grove in front of the Riedemann mausoleum, Ohlsdorf cemetery

Material pictures were created in which he used sand, paper, fabrics and the like. In the graphic sheets as well as in the painting he approached the poetic expression of the French Tachism . Due to the continued connection with his homeland, he paved the way for abstract art in Hamburg, which at that time was more objectively oriented by the teachers at the state art school.

In his later work he worked partly - in a playful way - representationally, but also abstractly and in all the techniques that he had developed in the course of his life - from prints to oil paintings and collages . He was inspired by trips to Tunis and Latin America .

Arnold Fiedler died on March 6, 1985 in Hamburg, he was buried in the area of the anonymous urn grove in front of the Riedemann mausoleum across from Chapel 8, Ohlsdorfer Friedhof .

Collections

Hamburger Kunsthalle
Museum for Arts and Crafts, Hamburg
Schleswig-Holstein State Museum Schloss Gottorf
City Darmstadt collection at the Mathildenhöhe Institute
Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo
Guggenheim Collection, Switzerland

Exhibitions

Arnold Fiedler. Works on paper . Gallery in the Haspa, Hamburg 2000.
Exhibition premiere. The forum for bequests presents works by eleven artists , Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg 2005.
Arnold Fiedler (1900-1985): Poetry and Optimism Works from Arnold Fielder's late work in the carstensen gallery, Hamburg 2010 carstensen gallery
Arnold Fiedler (1900-1985): Retrospective - collages and pictures on paper in the carstensen gallery, Hamburg January / February 2011
Arnold Fiedler (1900-1985): Black Landscape after Storm Exhibition in the carstensen gallery, Hamburg February / March 2012 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the severe storm surge in Northern Germany (1962)

literature

Uta Schoop: Arnold Fiedler (1900-1985) - An artist monograph , dissertation, 2011 ( PDF file )
Holger Carstensen: Black landscape after a storm. Arnold Fiedler experienced the Hamburg storm surge of 1962 Verlag Cord Oltmanns, Hamburg December 2011, ISBN 978-39813552-9-1
Holger Carstensen: Poetry and Optimism. Arnold Fiedler 1900-1985 (exhibition catalog) Oltmanns Verlag, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-9813552-0-8
Friederike Weimar: In: Exhibition catalog Arnold Fiedler. Works on paper . Gallery in the Haspa, Hamburg 2000
Cat. Arnold Fiedler. The painter 1900-1985. A catalog raisonné , edited by U. Schoop, Neumünster 1995
HT Flemming: Arnold Fiedler , Hamburg 1980

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personal data
SURNAME	Fiedler, Arnold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Fiedler, Arnold André Leonhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 1, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH	March 6, 1985
Place of death	Hamburg

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