Fritz Baust

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Fritz Baust (born June 3, 1912 in Oberliederbach ; † February 7, 1982 in Berlin-Rahnsdorf ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

life and work

Fritz Baust trained with a Dutch church painter from 1926 to 1929. He then moved to Berlin and worked as a decorative painter and later as an interior designer. After serving in the war and returning from captivity, he lived in Halle (Saale) from 1945, where he was temporarily head of department for youth issues and director of the Theater der Jugend . He was one of the “artists of the first hour” and made a significant contribution to getting the city's cultural life going. With a significant contribution by Baust, the artist group Die Fähre was created there in 1948 , to which u. a. Carl Crodel , Fritz Freitag , Erwin Hahs , Johanna Jura , Karl Erich Müller , Otto Müller , Helmut Schröder, Willi Sitte and Meinolf Splett belonged, and was in charge of Baust. Baust was at home in almost all areas of visual art. He worked on a wide range of topics: portraits, theater and circus pictures, landscapes, drawings on current events, book and newspaper illustrations as well as building-related art that dominated in the 1960s. From 1974, Baust lived and worked as a freelance artist in Rahnsdorf.

 Works (selection)

Panel paintings (selection)

  • Ernst Thälmann 1930, oil, 1953; exhibited at the 3rd German Art Exhibition of the GDR in 1953
  • Stralsund holiday harbor, oil, 1952; exhibited at the 3rd German Art Exhibition of the GDR in 1953
  • Rostock working harbor, oil; exhibited at the 3rd German Art Exhibition of the GDR in 1953
  • The last of the gallows, oil; exhibited at the 4th German Art Exhibition of the GDR in 1958
  • Bulgarian summer, oil; exhibited at the 4th German Art Exhibition of the GDR in 1958

Art in public space and building-related art (selection)

  • Merseburg, station forecourt: "Kosmonautenbrunnen" (demolished in 2009)
  • Halle (Saale), passage to the main station: mural "The development of the locomotive"

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1995/1996 Halle (Saale), Marktschlösschen gallery
  • 2009 Halle (Saale), Dr. Stelzner and Zaglmaier
  • 2012 Halle (Saale), Kunstforum Halle ("Fritz Baust painting and drawings")

Literature (selection)

  • Hans-Georg Sehrt a. a .: Fritz Baust 1912–1982. Painting, drawings, sketches. Hallescher Kunstverein eV, 1995 (exhibition catalog)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.rundgang-kunst.de/events/fritz-baust/ Hallischer Kunstverein shows: Works by Fritz Baust. In: Neues Deutschland, Berlin, December 18, 1995
personal data
SURNAME Baust, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberliederbach
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1982
Place of death Berlin-Rahnsdorf