Fritz Baumann (painter)
Fritz Baumann (born May 3, 1886 in Basel ; died October 9, 1942 there ) was a Swiss painter .
Life
Fritz Baumann completed an apprenticeship as a painter from 1902 to 1905 and began studying art at Fritz Schider's trade school in 1905 , which he continued in 1906/07 at the Munich Art Academy . Then he was in Rome, in Paris in 1909, in Karlsruhe in 1910/11, and in Paris again from 1911 to 1913. In 1913 he exhibited the three woodcuts La vie dans la rue , Café and Blatt 47 at the First German Autumn Salon in Berlin . He then worked again in Basel and did military service in Ticino from 1915 to 1918. From 1914 he was a teacher at the women's work school, from 1915 to 1942 he was a teacher of color and form at the Basel vocational school.
In 1918 he was a co-founder of the Basel artist group Das Neue Leben , which was dissolved again in 1919. In 1919 he was a co-signer of the Zurich Dada group Radical Artists .
He had a lifelong friendship with the two Swiss painters Arnold Brügger and Otto Morach . Baumann was at home in various styles, but most of the attention is paid to his expressionist works. The artist destroyed most of his works from the years 1916–1920 in a depressive phase by throwing them into the Rhine . Even later, Baumann was repeatedly plagued by depression . He committed suicide on October 9, 1942.
literature
- Baumann, Fritz . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 7, Saur, Munich a. a. 1993, ISBN 3-598-22747-7 , pp. 584 f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Fritz Baumann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Tapan Bhattacharya: Fritz Baumann. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Stephan Flury: Baumann, Fritz Caesar. In: Sikart
- Website Fritz Baumann - life and work
- Works by Fritz Baumann at Europeana
- Fritz Baumann on artnet
Individual evidence
- ^ Academy of Fine Arts Munich: 1907, Fritz Baumann, matriculation book. Retrieved August 15, 2019 .
- ^ Academy of Fine Arts Munich: 1920/21, Fritz Baumann, matriculation book. Retrieved August 15, 2019 .
- ^ First German Autumn Salon. Berlin 1913 . Verl. Der Sturm, Berlin 1913, p. 12
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Baumann, Fritz |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss painter |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 3, 1886 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Basel |
DATE OF DEATH | October 9, 1942 |
Place of death | Basel |