Fred Stelzig

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Fred Stelzig (born April 13, 1923 in Hundorf, Czechoslovakia , † July 16, 2006 in Besigheim ) was a German painter .

Life

Fred Stelzig was born in 1923 as the son of the porcelain painter Alfred Stelzig and his wife Franziska in Hundorf in Sudeten Germany. He attended the technical school for ceramics and related arts and crafts, painting department, in the district town of Teplitz-Schönau . In 1941 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht. There he met his future wife Annelies Bücking, who worked in the intelligence service. In 1945, Fred Stelzig was briefly captured by the Soviets as a prisoner of war. After his release he married and settled in Besigheim, his wife's hometown. From 1946 he attended the Free Art School in Stuttgart and then completed a guest study at the State Academy of Fine Arts in the field of ceramics.

After intensive occupation with Finnish design and handicrafts and two trips to Finland in the 50s, Fred Stelzig turned to painting as well as art in building . For this he mostly used ceramics, but also worked with wood and other materials. He also began designing tapestries that his wife wove and knotted. The couple had good acquaintance with many artists in the area, including Walter Strich-Chapell and Richard Duschk , and took an active part in the cultural life of the painter town of Besigheim and the region. In the 1960s, Fred Stelzig took part in several exhibitions of the New Stuttgart Secession in Stuttgart and Strasbourg. In 1967 Fred Stelzig discovered the naive artist Josef Wittlich and made him known.

Travel was an important source of inspiration for Fred Stelzig throughout his life. In his painting, which developed more and more from the representational to the abstract, the landscape always remained the most important subject. In 1993, a comprehensive retrospective was held at the Kunstverein Ludwigsburg while he was still alive. In 2006 Fred Stelzig died in his house in Besigheim.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1958 Stuttgart, union building
  • 1968 Ludwigsburg, Gallery 67
  • 1969 Karlsruhe, Gössel building center
  • 1974 Besigheim, town hall
  • 1977 Ludwigsburg, Kunstverein, Villa Franck
  • 1979 Bietigheim, Hornmoldhaus
  • 1982 Stuttgart, Dorn Gallery
  • 1993 Ludwigsburg, Kunstverein, Villa Frank
  • 1993 Besigheim, gallery in the three-gabled house
  • 2013 Besigheim, Town Hall
  • 2013 Municipal Gallery Bietigheim

Art in architecture (selection)

  • 1975 Bad Buchau spa and culture center
  • 1975 meeting room of the SSB Stuttgart (wood inlays)
  • 1978 Neckartor underground station in Stuttgart (enamel work)
  • 1989 Alte Kelter Besigheim

Awards

  • 1951, 1953 and 1954 winner of the Württemberg Art Prize for Young People

together with Annelies Stelzig:

  • 1965 State Prize from the Bavarian State Government
  • 1966 Prize of the International Crafts Exhibition
  • 1968, 1978 State Prize of the State of Baden-Württemberg

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  • Kunstverein Ludwigsburg (ed.): Fred Stelzig. Retrospective 1950-1993 . Exhibition catalog. Ludwigsburg 1993.

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personal data
SURNAME Stilty, Fred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stelzig, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Hundorf, Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 2006
Place of death Besigheim