Fritz Baumann (painter)

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Fritz Baumann: Self-Portrait , 1916

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

Web links

Commons : Fritz Baumann (painter)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Academy of Fine Arts Munich: 1907, Fritz Baumann, matriculation book. Retrieved August 15, 2019 .
  2. ^ Academy of Fine Arts Munich: 1920/21, Fritz Baumann, matriculation book. Retrieved August 15, 2019 .
  3. ^ First German Autumn Salon. Berlin 1913 . Verl. Der Sturm, Berlin 1913, p. 12
personal data
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