Fritz Bamberger

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Fritz Bamberger

Fritz (Friedrich) Bamberger (born October 17, 1814 in Würzburg , † August 13, 1873 in Neuenhain ) was a German painter . He was best known as a landscape painter .

Life

When he was five years old (his father was a musician ) the family moved to Frankfurt am Main . This was not to be the last move - stations in Dresden and Berlin followed. Here he began to take lessons at the art academy . After a short return to Würzburg, Fritz Bamberger went to Kassel in 1830 , where he continued his painting training with Primavesi .

View of Wiesbaden from the southeast , 1837, watercolor over pencil on wove paper

He was to spend the following two decades in Würzburg and Frankfurt. First orders from the nobility, middle-class families and the press followed. In 1844 he traveled to Paris , where he met his friend and painter Philipp Wirth again. At the end of the 1840s he went on a trip to Spain and made the acquaintance of Eduard Gerhardt . After his return he settled in Munich . Further trips to Italy and southern Europe followed. These stays also primarily determined the subjects of his pictures.

In 1871 Bamberger was appointed professor; a year later he became a member of the Munich Academy of the Arts . He died in 1873.

Fritz Bamberger primarily painted in oil . One of his well-known students was August Geist .

Works (excerpt)

View of Dettelbach, before 1847
View of Gibraltar, 1863
  • View of Dettelbach
  • Sea bay on a southern rocky coast
  • Coastal landscape with the ruins of a Greek temple
  • Thunderstorm mood over a wide valley with riders
  • View of Nuremberg
  • Spanish mountain landscape with people resting in the shade of the trees
  • Gibraltar
  • View of the bay in front of Capri
  • Andalusian coastal landscape in the midday sun
  • Zugspitze with Partenkirchen

literature

Monographs

  • Beate Reese: Fritz Bamberger (1814–1873) - Pictures of Spain. Catalog for the exhibition in the Städtische Galerie Würzburg 1996. Würzburg 1996, ISBN 3-928155-30-X .
  • Anja Gebauer: Spain - travel destination of German painters 1830-1870. Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2000, ISBN 3-932526-51-1 .
  • Jürgen Miguel Plötz: The landscape painter Fritz Bamberger (1814–1873). Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-8300-4022-4 .

Essays

  • Wilhelm Stricker:  Bamberger, Fritz . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 38 f.
  • Paul Fraundorfer: Contributions to the family history of the Main Franconian artist families Bamberger and Hitzelberger. (Three-part series of articles) In: Art in Mainfranken. (Annual gift of the Mainfränkischer Kunst- und Altertums-Verein). Stürtz-Verlag, Würzburg Vol. 1 (1939), pp. 11-12; Vol. 2 (1940), pp. 12-14; Vol. 3 (1941), pp. 34-41.
  • Günther Kleineberg: Fritz Bamberger (1814–1873) - draftsman of Nassau landscape: for his 175th birthday. (Five-part series of articles) In: Wiesbadener Leben. Verlag Chmielorz, Wiesbaden, vol. 38; (1989), No. 11, pp. 13-14, et al. 27; No. 12, pp. 12-14; and Jg. 39 (1990), No. 1, pp. 12-14; No. 2, pp. 14-16; No. 3, pp. 13-15.
  • Horst Ludwig: Three Rottmann students: Stange , Haushofer , Bamberger. (Munich landscape painter 9th episode) In: Weltkunst . Vol. 57 (1987), No. 8, pp. 1099-1103.
  • Beate Reese: Fritz Bamberger, Bavarian and Franconian views of the Spanish painter. In: Weltkunst. Vol. 66 (1996), No. 8, pp. 1099-1103.
  • Jürgen Miguel Plötz: Fritz Bamberger: "An excellent landscaper" ( Wilhelm von Kaulbach ). In: Weltkunst. Vol. 72 (2002), No. 6, pp. 917-919.
  • Franziska Stephan, Fritz Bamberger - domestic and Spanish landscapes of longing , in: Nico Kirchberger (Ed.), Sehnsucht.Landschaft - Würzburg and the romantic landscape painting of the 19th century , exhibition cat. Museum in the Kulturspeicher Würzburg, Berlin a. Munich 2016, pp. 22–39.

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personal data
SURNAME Bamberger, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bamberger, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter of Spanish landscapes
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1873
Place of death Neuenhain