Friedrich Kunitzer

Friedrich Kunitzer (born February 9, 1907 in Przedecz , † March 14, 1998 in Kördorf ) was a German painter, graphic artist and writer.

Friedrich Kunitzer spent his childhood mainly in Yaroslavl , where his father was a German teacher in the tsarist cadet corps from 1909. In 1918 the family fled to Łódź before the revolution . Here Friedrich Kunitzer attended the German grammar school . In 1926 he went to the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow and studied with Fryderyk Pautsch . Then he went to the Prussian Academy of the Arts for a short time , lived for a long time in the Worpswede artists' colony and in 1930 went to Paris to join Józef Pankiewicz . As a Pole of German ethnicity , Kunitzer did his military service in the Polish military in 1932 . In 1933 he exhibited his first paintings in Poznan , Łódź, Bromberg and Katowice . He created the illustrations for Kurt Lück's publications “The German Settlements in the Cholmer and Lublin Lands” and “Singing People - Folksongs from Congress Poland a. Volhynia ”. In 1935 Kunitzer went to Munich to study and formed a studio community with Eugen Nell .

In 1942 Friedrich Kunitzer became a soldier in the Wehrmacht and came to the Eastern Front . Towards the end of the war, Kunitzer was wounded and was then taken prisoner by the Americans, from which he was released in 1945. In 1949 he moved to Wiesbaden to live with his sister. In 1954 he became a member of the Esslingen Artists' Guild . In 1957 Kunitzer married the artist Tamara Weiland († 1996) and moved with her to Kördorf.

Works

• Icons in powder smoke. A drawing pen experiences d. Russian campaign . Weinheim 1957
• People, mills, fairy tales . Berlin and Bonn 1983 ISBN 3-922131-28-X

literature

• Karl Bauer: Friedrich Kunitzer . In: Ostdeutsche Gedenktage 2008. Bonn 2008, pp. 55–60 ISBN 978-3-88557-225-1