Edmund Fabry

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Edmund Fabry (born February 20, 1892 in Norderney ; † November 14, 1939 in Wiesbaden ) was a German architect, painter, draftsman, etcher and graphic artist.

life and work

Edmund Fabry: Watercolor "Landscape 3" (1917)

Fabry was born the son of the architect Franz Fabry (1860–1912) and his wife Adele Risse. Around 1894 Franz Fabry moved from Norderney to Wesel, where he built other buildings in addition to a branch of the Reichsbank. Before 1902 the family moved to Wiesbaden.

Edmund Fabry probably studied at the Mainz School of Applied Arts . After completing his studies, he settled in Wiesbaden and headed there since 1919 with the couple Josef Vinecký (1882-1949) and Li Vinecký-Thorn (1867-1952) a shared studio on Nikolasstraße (today Bahnhofstraße), in which they took private art lessons granted.

Fabry initially worked as a painter and graphic artist, but gradually built up an architecture office. One of his first assignments was the renovation, expansion and refurbishment of the Hofbuchhandlung Staadt store in Wiesbaden. He called in the sculptor Arnold Hensler . With him he was a founding member of the Darmstadt Secession in 1919 . His first still lifes and architectural pictures are expressionistically influenced, later works are entirely committed to Expressionism. Fabry was involved in expressionist magazines such as “Menschen” and “Die Sichel” and in 1919 also became a member of “Junge Rheinland” in Düsseldorf.

Alexej Jawlensky counted Fabry among his most important friends in his memoirs, which prompted him to move from Ascona to the spa town of Wiesbaden. At that time Fabry worked for the “Nassauischer Kunstverein” and the “Society for Fine Arts” as exhibition director. In this capacity, he included a large number of Jawlensky's works in a group exhibition in 1921 , which was a great sales success for the Russian.

Together with Arnold Hensler, for whom and his wife, the photographer Annie Hensler-Möring, he had built a residential and studio house with a “ Zollinger roof ” in Wiesbaden-Aukamm in 1925/1926 , he won several competitions for memorials related to the First World War. In 1928/1829 the “Cyriakusbrunnen” facility in Weeze on the Lower Rhine, in 1930 the “Monument of the 80s” on the Neroberg in Wiesbaden and in 1934/1935 the time in Lieser on the Moselle.

Together with the landscape architects Friedrich Wilhelm Hirsch and Arnold Hensler, he realized the "Reisinger systems" on the former tracks of the Wiesbaden Taunus station and in 1937 the "Herbert systems" with Hirsch. With Franz Schuster , Vienna / Frankfurt, he built the Opelbad in Wiesbaden.

Fabry was classified as a half-Jew by the National Socialists and had to close his office after the November pogroms in 1938 . He died of natural causes in 1939.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Fabry, Edmund. Hessian biography. (As of September 24, 2012). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Bernd Fäthke: Alexej Jawlensky, drawing-graphic documents. Exhibition catalog, Museum Wiesbaden 1983, p. 51 f, cat. No. 58–61.
  3. ↑ www.wesel.de: The grandstand of the Weseler Rennverein , accessed on January 25, 2018.
  4. ↑ Otto Renkhof: Nassauische biography. Short biographies from 13 centuries (= publications of the Historical Commission for Nassau. Volume 39). 2nd Edition. Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1992, ISBN 3-922244-90-4 , p. 183.
  5. ↑ Stadtlexikon Wiesbaden: Völcker, Hans , accessed on January 12, 2018.
  6. ^ Franz Josef Hamm: An artist couple between the world wars. The sculptor Arnold Hensler and the photographer Annie Hensler-Möring. Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden 2018, ISBN 978-3-95490-312-2 .
  7. ↑ Edmund Fabry. In: arch INFORM ..
  8. ↑ Alexej Jawlensky: Memoirs. in: Clemens Weiler (Ed.), Alexej Jawlensky, Heads-Faces-Meditations. Peters, Hanau 1970, p. 119 f.
  9. ↑ Bernd Fäthke: Alexej Jawlensky, heads etched and painted, The Wiesbaden years. Kunsthandel Draheim, Wiesbaden 2012, p. 7 f.
  10. ↑ Julia Müller: Saint Cyriakus in the Park , accessed on January 12, 2018.
  11. ^ Wiesbaden.de: Wandelhalle Herbert-Anlage .
  12. ↑ Manfred Auer: Heirs of the Nazis. Autobiographical observations by a contemporary witness. Tredition, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-7323-0890-3 .

literature

  • Franz Josef Hamm: An artist couple between the world wars. The sculptor Arnold Hensler and the photographer Annie Hensler-Möring. Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden 2018, ISBN 978-3-95490-312-2 .

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personal data
SURNAME Fabry, Edmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, painter, draftsman, etcher and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH on Norderney
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1939
Place of death Wiesbaden