Fritz Overbeck (painter)

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Fritz Overbeck: Self-Portrait , around 1900
Painter in front of the easel , 1905/06
Buckwheat fields on the Weyerberg , around 1897
Etching " Sturm im Moor "

Fritz Overbeck (born September 15, 1869 in Bremen , † June 8, 1909 in Bröcken near Vegesack ) was a German painter and etcher.

biography

Fritz Overbeck (stage name , real name: August Friedrich Overbeck) was the son of a technical director of the North German Lloyd . After graduating from the Bremen Old School Fritz Overbeck studied from 1889 to 1893 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . His teachers were Eugen Dücker (1892/1893), Peter Janssen the Elder. Ä. , Olof Jernberg and Carl Ernst Forberg . Otto Modersohn persuaded him to come to the new artists' colony in Worpswede . He first took up an apartment there in 1894 before setting up a studio on the Weyerberg in 1896 . During this time he painted pictures of lonely moorlands.

In 1897 Fritz Overbeck and his student Hermine Rothe married . Her son, the future botanist Fritz Theodor Overbeck , was born in 1898, the daughter Gerda in 1903. Around 1900 Fritz Overbeck designed pictures for the Cologne chocolate producer Ludwig Stollwerck together with the Worpswede artists Otto Modersohn and Heinrich Vogeler Stollwerck. In 1905 Fritz Overbeck moved with his family to Bröcken near Vegesack. Here he specialized in beach and dune landscapes on the North Sea islands.

Fritz Overbeck was a member of the German Association of Artists . He died unexpectedly of a stroke in 1909 at the age of only 39. His grave is in the Waller Friedhof in Bremen. In the vicinity of his house in today's Vegesack district of Schönebeck , the streets Overbeck's Garden and Overbeckstraße were named after him.

The granddaughter of the painter couple, Gertrud Overbeck (1933–2019), was committed to maintaining the life's work of the grandparents in the Friends of the Fritz and Hermine Overbeck Foundation . She was honored with the Federal Cross of Merit in March 2010 .

Fonts

  • A letter from Worpswede. in: Art for All XI (1895/96), pp. 20–24.

Museum property

Exhibitions

literature

  • Katja Pourshirazi, Antje Modersohn, Gertrud Overbeck (eds.): Otto Modersohn and Fritz Overbeck. The exchange of letters , Wienand, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-86832-198-2 .
  • Rainer Maria Rilke : Worpswede. Fritz Mackensen, Otto Modersohn, Fritz Overbeck, Hans am Ende, Heinrich Vogeler. Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld and Leipzig 1902 ( digitized , e-text ); New edition: Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1987 and more often, ISBN 978-3-458-32711-0
  • Sigrid Weltge-Wortmann: The first painters in Worpswede. A biography of the artist village and the painters Fritz Mackensen, Otto Modersohn, Fritz Overbeck, Hans am Ende, Heinrich Vogeler and Paula Modersohn-Becker. Extended edition. Worpsweder Verlag, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-922516-00-9 .
  • Renate Wiehager:  Overbeck, Fritz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 725 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Fritz Overbeck  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sigrid Weltge-Wortmann: The first painters in Worpswede. Worpsweder Verlag 1979, p. 54.
  2. ^ Rudolf Theilmann : The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker . In: Wend von Kalnein : The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 147
  3. ↑ Sigrid Weltge-Wortmann: The first painters in Worpswede. Worpsweder Verlag 1979, p. 54.
  4. ^ Goldoni, Maria: "A Stollwerck series by Heinrich Vogeler and Franz Eichert" in Esslingen conference proceedings 2002, Working Group Image, Print & Paper.
  5. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Ordinary members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Overbeck, Fritz (accessed on December 4, 2015)
  6. ↑ Home - Overbeck Museum. overbeck-museum.de, accessed on June 24, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Gertrud Overbeck awarded the Federal Cross of Merit , senatspressestelle.bremen.de, accessed on April 26, 2011
  8. ↑ Notice on the exhibition , accessed on July 26, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Overbeck, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Overbeck, August Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1909
Place of death Bröcken near Bremen-Vegesack