Franz Pflugradt

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Friedrich Ludwig Franz Pflugradt (born January 19, 1861 in Peenwerder / Demmin , † February 16, 1946 in Zingst ) was a German landscape painter.

Life

The son of a farmer was also initially active in this profession. Only at the age of 27 did he begin to study at the Berlin Art Academy on the advice of his uncle, the Berlin painter Gustav Pflugradt (1828–1908) . Here he attended the landscape class with Eugen Bracht and Max Koner . After that he worked as a freelancer in Berlin for some time. From 1910 he lived in Stralsund , study trips took him several times to Scandinavia.

He regularly spent the summer months on the Darss and Zingst as well as on the islands of Hiddensee and Rügen . He was the painter of the landscape of Western Pomerania . His main motifs came from the local nature, but also views of cities and individual buildings, preferably Stralsund and other cities in the region, were part of his work. Around 1920 the painting "Stralsund von der Seeseite" was created, in which the painter applied the colors not only with a brush, but also with a spatula and wooden sticks, thus achieving an atmospheric, "impressionistic" effect. Until the Great Depression, he found numerous buyers for his work, but was increasingly forgotten, so that he died lonely and impoverished. It was not until 1952 and 1975 that the Stralsund Cultural History Museum acquired 15 oil paintings and one watercolor from private ownership, including landscapes of the Pomeranian coastal and island region, Norwegian mountain views, hunting scenes and cityscapes.

The Hanseatic city of Stralsund named Franz-Pflugradt-Straße after the painter. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the painter's death, the city's cultural history museum honored him with a special exhibition in 1997. The Zingst Museum showed another special exhibition in 2017.

Incidentally, Franz Pflugradt's painterly roots went back even further than his uncle, his great-great-uncle was Caspar David Friedrich .

“He took his motifs from the local landscape: forest corners, island landscapes, coastal views, river banks, farms in moods of the year and the time of day. With rich, often darker colors and strong, lively style, he designed them into painterly forms.
The immediate visual experience should be felt. "

- Dorina Kasten

Works (selection)

Bussiner district
Seascape in winter
  • Coast on Rügen. Pencil drawing 1893; 32.5 × 25 cm, inscribed: Saßnitz 6 Aug 1893 and color information (private property)
  • Homestead under trees. Pencil drawing 1893; 32.5 × 25 cm, inscribed .: Hartitz… 93 / August (private collection)
  • Winter landscape. (1898) (GBK)
  • Winter. (1901) (GBK) / Winter forest. Oil / canvas, 75 × 90.5 cm, Stralsund, Kulturhistorisches Museum
  • View over the Jasmunder Bodden near Raelswiek. 1910; Oil / paper, 33.8 × 50.2 cm (art trade)
  • Autumn. Exhibition catalog of the Great Mecklenburg Art Exhibition, Schwerin 1911, No. 127
  • Stralsund from the seaside. (around 1920), oil / canvas, 69 × 89 cm, Stralsund, Kulturhistorisches Museum; Fig. In: Weltkunst. H. 14, July 15, 1997
  • At the Marienkirche in Stralsund.
  • Summer village landscape on Rügen.
  • Chalk cliffs Rügen. (around 1920)
  • Stralsund harbor.
  • River course in early spring. State Museum Schwerin

literature

  • Friedrich Schulz : Ahrenshoop. Artist Lexicon. Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 2001, ISBN 3-88132-292-2 , p. 144.
  • Ruth Negendanck : Hiddensee: the special island for artists. Edition Fischerhuder art book 2005, ISBN 978-3-88132-288-1 . P. 109.
  • Grete Grewolls: Pflugradt, (Friedrich Ludwig) Franz. In: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. the lexicon of persons. Hinstorff, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01405-1 .
  • Siegfried White : Painter of the Landscapes of Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania - Gustav and Franz Pflugradt. In: Weltkunst. H. 14, July 15, 1997.

Web links

Commons : Franz Pflugradt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Special Franz Pflugradt at www.zingst.de
  2. ↑ not listed in his student lists; see. Manfred Großkinsky: Eugen Bracht (1842–1921). Exhibition cat. Darmstadt 1992, ISBN 3-935283-10-5
  3. ↑ January 26 to March 9, 1997
  4. ^ Special exhibition Franz Pflugradt - Museum Zingst
  5. ^ Dorina Kasten: The landscape painter Franz Pflugradt. Supplement to the exhibition of the Cultural History Museum of the Hanseatic City of Stralsund, 1997.
personal data
SURNAME Pflugradt, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pflugradt, Friedrich Ludwig Franz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Peenwerder , Demmin
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1946
Place of death Zingst