Erich Fraaß

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Erich Fraaß (born April 14, 1893 in Glauchau , † January 9, 1974 in Dresden ) was a German painter .

Life

Erich Fraaß was born the son of a master weaver . From 1907 he started his apprenticeship as a lithographer . During his apprenticeship training he painted his father at the loom. The pastor of his parish saw this picture and recognized the great talent of young Fraass. Without the knowledge of the Fraass family, the pastor collected money from the region's textile companies in order to enable him to do an education that went beyond his apprenticeship. With a donation of 250 gold marks, the young artist left his hometown and went to Dresden.

Fraass accepted the Dresden School of Applied Arts in 1910 and attended it until 1912. In the same year, he switched to Oskar Zwintscher at the Dresden Art Academy . As a volunteer in the First World War , he had to interrupt his studies and continued after the war as a master student of Robert Sterl . He attended the art academy until 1922. After completing his academic training, he made trips to Holland, Spain, the Hohe Tauern and Upper Bavaria , from which he artistically processed many impressions. Returning to Dresden, he found many motifs of his work in the landscapes of the Elbe Valley , the Lusatian Mountains , Saxon Switzerland , the Moritzburg pond area and the Ore Mountains .

In 1920 he was a co-founder of the artist group Die Schaffenden . Erich Fraaß was a member of the German Association of Artists . Until 1930 he was a member of the board of the Dresden Artists' Association . He was a co-founder of the " Dresden Secession 1932 " and was a member of its board. He heavily criticized the dissolution of this group in 1934 by the National Socialists. As a result, his artistic status was revoked. During the war years he belonged to the group of the upright , which consisted of seven Dresden painters.

Like many other Dresden painters, Erich Fraaß lost his studio and some of his works in the bombing raid on Dresden on February 13, 1945. After this turning point, he participated intensively in the organizational work of the artists' association in order to quickly bring the cultural life of the destroyed Dresden back to life to let. Fraaß worked from 1947 to 1958 as a lecturer and professor at the University of Fine Arts in Dresden . Study trips took him to Holland , Spain , the Alps and Galicia . He cultivated friendships with Bernhard Kretzschmar and Otto Griebel, among others .

Fraaß created his works out of the experience of nature, and out of awe of the people who find their livelihood in this nature. In the twenties and thirties in particular, impressive, powerful portraits of farmers and their cattle were created - almost always in front of bright landscapes. In later years he found more filigree descriptions of landscapes.

Erich Fraaß lived and worked in Dresden and in Gostritz in the Erzgebirge foothills, especially in the area around the Wilisch . He took his personal motto from Leonardo da Vinci : "Remember that you should learn to be careful rather than to learn".

In terms of art history, Erich Fraaß belongs to the Lost Generation and Expressive Realism .

Works (excerpt)

  • 1948 "Tractorist" tempera
  • 1956 "Circle stone and crown of peace" oil

Awards

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • 1946 and 1983 Freital
  • 1947 Halle (Saale)
  • 1953 and 1978 Glauchau
  • 1973 Dresden
  • 1976 Schwerin
  • 1983 Sebnitz
  • 1984 Riesa
  • 1984 and 1986 Pirna

Exhibition participation

  • 1927 Graphic exhibition of the German Association of Artists, Dresden
  • 1946, 1949, 1953, 1957, 1962, 1967 and 1972 art exhibition of the GDR
  • 1972 and 1974 district art exhibition in Dresden
  • 1951 Artists create for peace, Berlin
  • 1969 and 1974 graphics in the GDR, Berlin
  • 1976 Two hundred years of painting in Dresden, ibid
  • 1984 Das Ufer , Dresden
  • 1985 artists in the alliance

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903. kuenstlerbund.de. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on February 13, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  2. ↑ Karin Müller-Kelwing: The Dresden Secession 1932 - An artist group in the field of tension between art and politics. Hildesheim (a.o.) 2010, also: Dissertation, TU Dresden 2008, p. 186.
  3. ^ Rainer Zimmermann: Expressive Realism. Painting of the Lost Generation . Hirmer, Munich 1994, p. 371.

literature

  • J .: Fraass, Erich . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 141 .
  • Fraaß . With an essay by Hellmuth Heinz. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden (painter and work series), 1973
  • Gerlint Söder: Fraaß, Erich . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 43, Saur, Munich a. a. 2004, ISBN 3-598-22783-3 , p. 193.
  • Dietmar Eisold (Ed.): Lexicon artists in the GDR. Neues Leben, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-355-01761-9 , p. 216.
  • Karin Müller-Kelwing: The Dresden Secession 1932 - A group of artists in the field of tension between art and politics . Hildesheim (and others) 2010, also: Dissertation, TU Dresden 2008, ISBN 978-3-487-14397-2 , pp. 186, 367.
  • Gert Claussnitzer, Klaus Hebecker, Susanne Kühne: Erich Fraaß 1893 - 1974, monograph and directory of painterly works . (Edition Galerie & Kunsthaus Hebecker; 2), Kunstverlag Gotha, 1996, ISBN 3-931182-19-3 .
  • Otto Griebel: I was a man on the street . 2nd Edition. DZA Verlag for Culture and Science, Altenburg 1995, ISBN 3-9804226-1-5 .
  • Günther Gross, Erhard Frommhold: People and landscape of the Osterzgebirge . Ed .: Museum Osterzgebirgsgalerie. Dippoldiswalde, DNB  98183079X .
  • Hellmuth Heinz : Erich Fraaß - A sixty year old . Ed .: Council of the City of Freital, Cultural Association for the Democratic Renewal of Germany. Freital 1953, DNB  573730377 .

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personal data
SURNAME Fraaß, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Glauchau , Saxony , Germany
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1974
Place of death Dresden , GDR