Friedrich Knödler

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Friedrich Knödler (born May 2, 1920 in Jagstfeld , † August 25, 1988 in Löffingen ) was a German artist.

Life

Knödler first made an apprenticeship as a painter, from 1937 he took drawing lessons from Walther Eberbach from Heilbronn. From 1938 to 1942 he studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart under Hans Spiegel and Anton Kolig, who was born in Bohemia . From 1942 he had to do military service, and after the war he settled as a freelance artist in Jagstfeld.

Knödler soon joined the Künstlerbund Heilbronn , and among the artists in this city he stands out as a particularly strong supporter of Expressionism. He was influenced by his teacher Kolig, who (together with Oskar Kokoschka ) had represented expressionism in Austrian painting, especially in composition, color and ecstatic gestures. He passed this orientation on to Knödler, who carried it on independently, spirited, with a move towards dynamism and an emphasis on color as a liquid or tectonic component.

Knödler had his first own exhibition in 1950 in the Amerikahaus Heilbronn. He also created the now listed stained glass windows in the former restaurant area of ​​the reception hall of the main train station in this city as well as a wall mosaic on the upper floor. He had exhibitions in the Haus der Kunst and the Lenbachhaus in Munich , in the Galerie am Dom and in the Penthouse Gallery in Frankfurt am Main and at the Württembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart. He moved to Güglingen in 1957 and to Löffingen in 1964 . He died in Löffingen in 1988.

Works (selection)

  • City: In the South (1957), oil, 65 × 80 cm, Städtische Museen Heilbronn. A sea of ​​houses can be seen, with the open sea with a sailing boat partially visible in the background on the right. The whole painting is done in strong orange-red colors. Knödler worked in particular with a paint spatula and thus not only structured the painting, but also mixed the lower with the upper layers of paint. This created a kind of striped pattern that emphasizes the darkly framed contours of the sea of ​​houses.
  • The fisher woman (1959), watercolor, 43.5 × 59 cm, Städtische Museen Heilbronn. Stylistically, this picture can be compared with the work of Max Beckmann . Here, too, Knödler's conception of the picture comes to light: Orange-red colors dominate the painting, black ornamental lines, flat representation of objects.
  • Mythical animal , oil on Japanese paper, 54 × 64 cm

literature

  • 30 years of the Heilbronn Artists Association, summer exhibition 1979 , Heilbronn 1979, pp. 106/107
  • Andreas Pfeiffer (Ed.): Heilbronn and the art of the 50s. The art scene in Heilbronn in the 1950s. Situations from everyday life, traffic and architecture in Heilbronn in the 50s . Harwalik, Reutlingen 1993, ISBN 3-921638-43-7 , p. 160 ( Heilbronner Museum Catalog . No. 43. Series Städtische Galerie)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data after entry of Friedrich Knödler in the personal database of the state bibliography of Baden-Württemberg and according to the Heilbronn city archive, contemporary history collection, signature ZS-11724, entry on Friedrich Knödler in the HEUSS database
  2. ↑ Heilbronn and the art of the 50s, Städtische Museen Heilbronn 1993, illustration no.209, page 160
  3. ↑ Heilbronn and the art of the 50s, Städtische Museen Heilbronn 1993, illustration no.95, page 77
  4. ↑ Heilbronn and the art of the 50s, Städtische Museen Heilbronn 1993, illustration No. 92, p. 74 and p. 75
  5. ↑ 30 years of the Heilbronn Artists' Association, summer exhibition 1979, Heilbronn 1979, pp. 106/107
personal data
SURNAME Knödler, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Jagstfeld
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1988
Place of death Loeffingen