Arthur Fauser

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Arthur Fauser (born May 26, 1911 in Kollnau ; † September 21, 1990 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German visual artist . With his works he influenced modern art , especially after 1945. He was the father of the writer Jörg Fauser (1944–1987).

Life

Arthur Fauser was born in 1911 in the house of his paternal grandparents, the blacksmith Christian Fauser and his wife Therese. In the same year the family moved to Reutlingen to live with the mother's parents . The father died in 1918 and the mother married for the second time in 1921. While attending secondary school from 1921–1927, Fauser began painting, supported by the drawing teacher Walter Ast .

After secondary school , he spent three months as an apprentice with a master painter, followed by a banking apprenticeship at the “ Deutsche Bank ” branch in Reutlingen until 1929 . In 1929 Fauser became an employee in commercial graphic studios ( HAP Grieshaber , Fromann). In 1930 Fauser stayed in Locarno , working as a house painter and doing graphic jobs. In addition, he made literary experiments ( comedy Die Socken des Herr Mussolini. ). This was followed by expulsion from Switzerland for unwanted political activity, so that Fauser had to return to Reutlingen.

After the seizure of power of the NSDAP Fauser received in 1933 exhibition ban. In 1934 he spent the period from March to August in Zurich and was active in anti-fascist organizations. He then went to Genoa for a long time , but was eventually deported as a homeless tramp. In Bellinzona he was imprisoned in the police prison, then transferred to Basel on remand prison. After being deported to Germany, he tipped north and was called back to Reutlingen in Frankfurt am Main by a letter from his former employer Grieshaber.

From 1935 to 1936 Fauser had an apprenticeship as a xylograph at the cliché establishment Sautter. With Grieshaber he was an artistic advisor for commercial graphics. During this time the “Marienkirche Reutlingen” publishing house was founded. Fauser took photographs of the Marienkirche in Reutlingen for a planned book and continued the literary attempts with the theater plays Wanda , Tyll and Leonien . For political reasons, however, it became impossible to remain in Reutlingen any longer.

At the beginning of May 1937, Fauser went to Berlin and became a file keeper at the “Reich Office for Grain, Feed and Other Agricultural Products”. With Günther Weisenborn , Ernst Brasch , Aribert Moog and others, he founded the cabaret “Die Dachluke”, which was banned in 1938 after ten performances. In May 1939 he came to Frankfurt and wrote contributions for theater programs.

After the war began, Fauser became a soldier in 1940 and was deployed in Belgium, France, Finland (where he was wounded) and Holland. At the end of the war he was taken prisoner of war . During the time in the recovery company in December 1941, Fauser married the actress Maria Razum, who gave birth to her son Jörg Fauser on July 16, 1944 .

Although they had been moved to different locations, all of the pictures, pastels, woodcuts, drawings and manuscripts painted by Fauser before 1933, as well as the books hidden from the Nazis - works by Lenin , Engels , George Grosz , various Expressionists , etc. - went through bombs and looting lost.

In 1946, Fauser became a dramaturge at the Rhein-Mainische Landesbühne in Frankfurt , he began painting again in 1947. During this time he became acquainted with Gordon W. Gilkey. Between 1948 and 1952 Fauser wrote radio plays and other contributions for the Hessischer Rundfunk . 1953 was the first time a comedy by Fauser was performed in Hamburg. Since then he has worked exclusively as a painter. From February to October 1958 he spent at the Villa Massimo in Rome .

The appointment as head and professor of a specialist class for free painting (successor to Hermann Sohn ) at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart in 1961 remained an episode due to differences with the rector about training issues, Fauser refrained from staying "after a few weeks". Since 1960 he has had long stays in France, Italy and Yugoslavia on a regular basis. Arthur Fauser passed away in 1990.

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After the war, Fauser initially worked with black and white woodcuts and colored, sometimes abstract, lithographs . Later next was watercolor and oil paintings , the etching to his preferred form of expression.

During his lifetime, Fauser's works were shown internationally in around 40 solo and group exhibitions. His works can be found in private collections and in museums at home and abroad (including Städtische Galerie Frankfurt , Deutsche Bundesbank Frankfurt, Portland Museum of Art , The Institute of Art, Dayton, Holocaust Library and Research Center of San Francisco, USA).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Kermer : Data and images on the history of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart. Edition Cantz, Stuttgart 1988 (= improved reprint from: Die Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart: a self-portrayal . Edition Cantz, Stuttgart 1988), o. P. [12].
personal data
SURNAME Fauser, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Kollnau
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1990
Place of death Frankfurt am Main