Fritz Lach

Fritz Lach (born May 29, 1868 in Linz , † October 9, 1933 in Vienna ) was an Austrian painter and graphic artist .

life and work

The Danube Strait Kazan in the Iron Gate , watercolor (1928)

Honorary grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery

He was the nephew of the flower and still life painter Andreas Lach and the great-nephew of Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller . After commercial and secondary school in Linz, he attended a cadet school in Vienna from 1882 to 1885 . He then studied at the Vienna Academy and the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , among others with Eduard Peithner von Lichtenfels and his uncle Josef Hoffmann . Up to the age of 32 he worked as an official of the DDSG in various Danube cities - from 1890 he was port clerk in Orșova, then civil servant in Semlin (today Belgrade ) and in Regensburg . From 1900 Friedrich Lach settled in Vienna as a painter and graphic artist. From 1909 he devoted himself exclusively to artistic creation. He was a member of the Austrian Association of Artists and the Dürerbund . He was chairman of this from 1916. His landscape watercolors were particularly appreciated . He was considered the most important watercolor artist since Rudolf von Alt . Lach died of a stroke in 1933 . He was buried in an honorary grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery (Group 12 E, Row 1, No. 8).

His hometown Linz (1934) honored the artist with the Fritz-Lach-Weg on the Freinberg .

Awards and honors

• 1916 Honorary Prize from the City of Vienna
• 1918 honorary diploma from the Albrecht Dürer Association
• 1919 Gold Medal from the Albrecht Dürer Association
• 1925 honorary citizenship of the city of Linz
• 1929 Second honorary award from the City of Vienna
• 1931 Silver Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria

literature

• Laugh, Fritz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 22 : Krügner – Leitch . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1928, p. 175-176 .
• Laugh, Fritz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 149 f .
• Wacha:  Laugh Friedrich (Fritz). In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1969, p. 393.
• Rudolf Lehr, Wilhelm Seidler (ed.): Galerie Seidler, exhibition catalog and biography "Fritz Lach". Wimmer-Druck Linz, 1994.
• Franz Smola, Carl Aigner, Michael Grünwald (eds.): Beautiful Wachau. World cultural heritage in pictures from Biedermeier to modern times. Special exhibition from March 21 to October 31, 2011. Göttweig Abbey, Göttweig 2011, ISBN 978-3-200-02164-8 , p. 162.

Web links

Commons : Fritz Lach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Fritz Lach in the catalog of the German National Library