Fedor Flinzer
Fedor Alexis Flinzer (born April 4, 1832 in Reichenbach im Vogtland , † June 14, 1911 in Leipzig ) was a German author , educator and one of the most important illustrators of the early years , who was known as "Saxon Cat Raffael ".
Beginnings
Flinzer attended the art academy in Dresden from 1849 and was trained there by Ludwig Richter and Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld , among others . From 1859 he held a position as a drawing teacher at the secondary school in Chemnitz , where he was also one of the founders of the Kunsthütte association and a member of the Chemnitz Masonic lodge "Zur Harmonie". In 1862 he married Marie Wolfram, a niece of Richard Wagner .
Drawing teacher and municipal drawing inspector in Leipzig
Shortly after taking office as the city's drawing inspector and after starting his work as a drawing teacher at the Petri School in Leipzig, Flinzer summarized the knowledge he had gathered during class in his textbook on drawing lessons (Bielefeld / Leipzig) in 1876 . This work made him known in other European countries and in America. Because of his textbook, Flinzer was described as the harbinger of the so-called art education movement , with whose representatives he then led fierce technical controversies and as a result of which his influence increasingly waned.
Artist
Rooted in the art of Biedermeier and Romanticism , Flinzer later created works with clear traces of historicism and with echoes of Art Nouveau . His artistic preference was for the animal world and especially cats and house cats . This earned him - with a slightly ironic undertone - the nicknames "Katzen-Flinzer" and "Saxon Katzen-Raffael". His specialty was the humanized and humorous-satirical depiction of animals, partly based on Wilhelm von Kaulbach and Grandville .
In his early years he created oil paintings and frescoes , for example for the weaving school in Chemnitz. This was followed by commercial graphic works - for example the well-known design of the “cat” brand for Hoffmann's starch factories in Salzuflen and designs for reform toys for the Dresden workshops . Flinzer also illustrated oval playing cards . Numerous works were aimed at an adult audience, for example in the family magazines Die Gartenlaube and Daheim . Above all, however, Flinzer's illustrations were created for hundreds of children's, youth and picture books. His main work is the picture book König Nobel (1886), a continuation of the famous Reineke Fuchs , which he published together with the youthful writer Julius Lohmeyer . Other authors with whom he worked are Frida Schanz , Victor Blüthgen , Georg Christian Dieffenbach , Johannes Trojan , Edwin Bormann and Georg Bötticher , the father of Joachim Ringelnatz .
Finally, his many years of activity for the 19th century youth magazine Deutsche Jugend , for which he illustrated the first print of Theodor Storm's story Lena Wies, should be emphasized. Flinzer also contributed illustrations to the well-known English youth magazine Aunt Judy's Christmas Volume .
Flinzer was a member of the Leipzig artists and scholars' association The Leonids . His students included the graphic artist Hans Domizlaff , the landscape painter Arthur Feudel , the sculptor Albrecht Leistner and the artist and agent Gerd Kaden .
Afterlife
A picture book illustration by Flinzer inspired the painter Christian Ludwig Attersee to his provocative early work Kinderzimmertriptychon from 1971. The New Yorker Nayland Blake (born 1960) combined a drawing by Flinzer from the German youth with his own caption in 1989 . The work is now in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , without any indication of Flinzer's authorship .
Memorial and medal
Flinzer's grave was in the New Johannisfriedhof (today Friedenspark ) in Leipzig. In 1914 the Leipzig sculptor Johannes Hartmann created his Fedor Flinzer monument for this grave. The medalist Adolf Lehnert , also from Leipzig, designed a plaque in honor of Flinzer.
Works (selection)
- Mrs. Kitten , Chemnitz 1870 (with Emma Hilgenfeld)
- The Frog Mouse War , Frankfurt am Main 1878 (with Victor Blüthgen ; modified reprint 1994)
- Reineke Fuchs (Free adaptation of the Low German Reinke de Vos.) , Glogau 1881 (with Julius Lohmeyer and Edwin Bormann)
- Youth fountain , Berlin 1883 (reprinted 1990)
- Contributions to The feathers & fur picture book , London & New York 1884
- Poquito á poco , Barcelona 1885 (with Anna Herding)
- Happy childhood , Bremen 1885 (with Georg Christian Dieffenbach; modified reprint 1989)
- By little and little or first English lesson-book for children from five to ten years of age , Breslau 1885 (with A. Herding)
- Tommy Murr's diary , London ca.1886
- König Nobel , Breslau 1886 (with Julius Lohmeyer; modified reprint 1979)
- Nuevas fábulas , Barcelona 1886 (with Felipe Jacinto Sala)
- Reviews in annual reports on the higher education system , Berlin 1886 ff. (Edited by Conrad Rethwisch)
- Der Thierstruwwelpeter , Breslau 1887 (with Julius Lohmeyer)
- The child's Wunderhorn , Breslau 1889
- An animal school in pictures , Breslau 1891 (with Victor Blüthgen; modified reprint 1979)
- Struwwelpeter the Younger , Stuttgart 1891 (with Johannes Trojan; an English edition was published under the title Struwwelpeter junior )
- How the animals wanted to become soldiers , Leipzig 1892 (with Georg Bötticher; modified reprint 1979)
- The dance , Leipzig 1893
- Contributions to Juliana Horatia Ewing (1841–1895), Verses for Children and Songs for Music , London 1895
Exhibitions (selection)
- 2003/2004 Troisdorf , picture book museum
- 2004 Dresden , Museum for Saxon Folk Art
- 2004 Reichenbach im Vogtland , Neuberin Museum
- 2004/2005 Bad Pyrmont , museum in the castle
- 2005 Bad Salzuflen , City & Bath Museum
literature
- Enciclopedia Universal Ilutrada Europeo-Americana , Tomo XXIV, Madrid 1924, 83.
- Fedor Bochow, Volker Ladenthin, Maria Linsmann: Children, cats, art. The picture book artist Fedor Alexis Flinzer (1832–1911). Wissem Castle - Picture Book Museum, Troisdorf 2003, ISBN 3-9809301-0-6 .
- Fedor Bochow: Flinzer, Fedor Alexis . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 41, Saur, Munich a. a. 2004, ISBN 3-598-22781-7 , pp. 254-256.
- Fedor Bochow: Flinzer, Fedor . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
Web links
- Literature by and about Fedor Flinzer in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Literature by and about Fedor Flinzer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Fedor Flinzer picture book world
- Objects by Fedor Flinzer in OPAL (online portal of digitized cultural assets in Lower Saxony)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the Lodge Zur Harmonie can be found at http://schlossbergmuseum.de/templates/archiv/freimaurer/FM-Homepage.htm .
- ↑ For further biographical information please refer to: Fedor Bochow: Fedor Flinzer . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
- ↑ See, for example, Isaac Edwards Clarke: Education in the Industrial and Fine Arts in the United States , Part II, Washington 1892, p. 668.
- ↑ Twietmeyer, A. (publisher) & Flinzer, Fedor (artist): New oval drawing room playing cards . Europeana. Retrieved October 4, 2013.
- ↑ An illustration for Storm's story Lena Wies can be found at http://www.deutschefotothek.de/obj30105961.html .
- ↑ See Fedor Bochow: Flinzer, Fedor Alexis, in: Saur Allgemeine Künstlerlexikon. The visual artists of all times and peoples, Vol. 41, Munich / Leipzig 2004, 254–256.
- ↑ The drawing was printed on page 186 of the second volume of "Deutsche Jugend" from 1873. See file: Painting Nature.jpg .
- ↑ The illustration was given the title Made with pride by a Queen and can be found at https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/95.6 .
- ↑ See F. Becker: Monuments. The inauguration of the Fedor Flinzer monument in Leipzig. In: Art Chronicle, New Series, Volume 27, No. 20 of February 11, 1916, EA Seemann, Leipzig 1916, Col. 199 .
- ↑ A copy of the Flinzer plaque is kept in the Leipzig City History Museum ; see under http://museum.zib.de/sgml_internet/sgml.php?seite=5&fld_0=z0024950 .
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See also
- Aesthetic education
- Art education
- Art year 1911
- List of eminent educators
- List of authors of children's and youth literature
- List of painters
- Literature year 1911
- Nekrolog 1911
- Reform pedagogy
- visual communication
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Flinzer, Fedor |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Flinzer, Fedor Alexis (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German author, educator and illustrator |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 4, 1832 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Reichenbach in Vogtland |
DATE OF DEATH | June 14, 1911 |
Place of death | Leipzig |