Ernst Fritsch

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Ernst Paul Max Fritsch , (born August 23, 1892 in Charlottenburg , † December 8, 1965 in Berlin ) was a German painter and drawing teacher.

life and work

Honorary grave, Potsdamer Chaussee 75, in Berlin-Nikolassee

After graduating from the Lichterfelde High School in 1909 , Fritsch began an apprenticeship in a Berlin design studio for wall fabrics and wallpapers. He then trained as a drawing teacher at the Royal Art School in Berlin from 1911 to 1914 . After graduating, he continued his studies at the teaching establishment of the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin (1913-1914). He took part in World War I and then worked as a teacher from 1919 to 1921. From 1919 to 1932 he was a member of the Berlin Secession and since 1919 of the November group .

In 1927 Fritsch received the "Rome Prize" from the Prussian Academy of Arts . Since 1925, Fritsch was constantly represented with pictures at exhibitions of the Munich New Secession . In 1928 and 1929 stays in Paris and Rome followed.

Until he was banned from exhibiting in 1933, Fritsch worked as a freelance painter. At first he was still considered a representative of Cubism , but soon he turned to the New Objectivity . Also committed to expressionism , Fritsch increasingly followed the expressive realism influenced by Rainer Zimmermann .

In the years from 1939 to 1942 he took on a teaching position at the Kunst und Werk - private school for design in Berlin. On March 20, 1939, the National Socialists destroyed a large part of his works while burning paintings in the courtyard of the Berlin fire station . From 1942 to 1945 he was drafted into the military.

In 1946 Fritsch became a professor at the Berlin University of Fine Arts , where he headed the art education department from 1953. Ernst Fritsch was a member of the German Association of Artists .

Fritsch was buried in the Zehlendorf forest cemetery in Berlin-Nikolassee . The grave was one of the honor graves of the State of Berlin until 2015 .

Works (selection)

  • Tiergarten Bridge Berlin. 1924.
  • Nocturno. 1947.
  • Farm in the Mark. 1924.
  • Beach chairs on the Baltic Sea. 1929.
  • Men's game. 1929.
  • Catholic Church in Friedenau. 1925.
  • Man and woman in front of houses. 1922.
  • The shoemaker's son. 1928.
  • Still life with roses. 1928.
  • Portrait of a young woman with red lips. 1940.

literature

Web links

Commons : Ernst Fritsch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 166.
  2. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903 / Fritsch, Ernst ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (accessed on July 30, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
personal data
SURNAME Fritsch, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fritsch, Ernst Paul Max (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Charlottenburg
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1965
Place of death Berlin