Friedrich Boehme
Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Paul Böhme (born September 13, 1898 in Dresden , † April 11, 1975 in Bayreuth ) was a German painter and sculptor .
Friedrich Böhme, a son of the factory owner Friedrich Wilhelm August Karl Böhme, studied from 1928 to 1933 at the Dresden Art Academy under Karl Albiker . Before completing his academic training, he had traveled to southern Europe, crossed the Iberian Peninsula on foot and worked as a blacksmith in Florence. After another year of traveling, which led through Mallorca, the Spanish mainland and Italy, he opened a sculptor's studio in Dresden in 1934. After 1945 he built up a new existence as an artist in Bayreuth. Friedrich Böhme is one of the founding members of the Free Group Bayreuth .
From the works before 1945, only a few sheets - mostly charcoal and red chalk drawings - have survived in private ownership. The city of Bayreuth still owns some tempera and oil paintings, other works are in private hands.
Individual evidence
- ^ Birth register StA Dresden III, No. 2243/1898
- ^ Death register StA Bayreuth, No. 476/1975
- ↑ Gero von Billerbeck: Lush, rampant “Garden of Earthly Delights”. For the exhibition of the late sculptor-painter Fritz Böhme in the New Town Hall. North Bavarian Courier, June 28, 1977.
- ^ Gero von Billerbeck: Bayreuth painter of the post-war period. North Bavarian Courier, March 12, 2010.
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| SURNAME | Boehme, Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Böhme, Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Paul (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 13, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 11, 1975 |
| Place of death | Bayreuth |