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 .
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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
- 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.
Web links
- Fritz Bamberger. Biographical data and works in the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch)
- Literature by and about Fritz Bamberger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Munich - Works are currently no longer on permanent display.
- Städtische Galerie Würzburg - works on permanent display.
personal data | |
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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 |