Fritz Berz

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Fritz Berz , actually Friedrich Wilhelm Berz, (born January 15, 1883 in Munich ; † October 31, 1966 there ) was a German interior designer , painter and graphic artist .

Life

Fritz Berz was a son of the painter Max Berz (1845–1915) and his second wife, Karoline, née Schaffner. He attended the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich from 1893 and left the penultimate grade in 1902 without a degree. His entry into the painting class Franz von Stuck at the Munich Art Academy is documented on May 3, 1906 ; No information is available for intermediate artistic training. The military service, to which he was drafted in June 1908, he completed in Munich; when the war broke out in 1914 it was convened again. In 1922 he married Maria Babette Conrad, daughter of a Munich government director. Fritz Berz was a member of the Reich Association of German Artists and the Munich Luitpold Group .

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Fritz Berz worked as a painter of landscapes, figure compositions and portraits, but above all as a graphic artist and illustrator mainly in Munich. As an exhibitor at the Munich Secession , he first participated in the 1917 annual exhibition with an oil painting “Rennplatz”, which was followed in the 1923 exhibition - now at the Munich Artists' Cooperative - with the compositions Railway Construction and Fair . The titles of other pictures exhibited in the following refer to journeys and study stays in Italy, on the Dalmatian and southern French coasts, in Asia Minor and in Paris, such as the Italian port town (1926) and - now also as an exhibitor of the Luitpold Group - the port of Ragusa ( 1927), Bosporus (1928), street motif from Udine (1929) or Parisian streets (1930). With Fritz Erler (1868–1940), Karl Arnold (1883–1953), Richard Klein (1890–1967), Albert Allmann (1890–1979) and Rolf Winkler (1884–1942), Fritz Berz was already involved as a member 1903 founded in Munich artists association " Die Gaukler " . He contributed drawings and color lithographs to the juggler's days , which took place annually until 1939 and again from 1949. He also created bookplates and text illustrations, including for some novels, for an edition of the poems of the Persian poet Hafis (1921) and for the book The Meaning of the Peasant Class by August Reichenberger, which appeared in 1934 with 70 of his drawings. In 1920 he decorated the rooms of the Landshut biscuit and food factory and the United German Food Factory Kaiser-Otto AG. "With lovely rococo pictures, graceful putti on a light background". A carnival sculpture he created, entitled Sauser , was set up in Apolda in 1939 .

literature

  • German art and decoration. Illustrated monthly booklets for modern painting, sculpture, architecture, home art and women's artistic work. Issue 41, 1917/18, p. 98.
  • Germany. Construction magazine. 1922, Issue 9, pp. 192, 194, 197 (3 illustrations).
  • 20 years of jugglers . In: Munich latest news. No. 52, February 22, 1924.
  • Berz, Fritz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953.
  • Berz, Fritz . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 10, Saur, Munich a. a. 1994, ISBN 3-598-22750-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Maximiliansgymnasium Munich, archive, matriculation 1893 / 94–1901 / 02.
  2. ^ Munich, Academy of Fine Arts, Matriculation Book 3, 1884–1920: 03091 Fritz Berz [1] .
  3. ^ Munich, City Archives, Registration Documents (PMB).
  4. ↑ Hafez: About love and the wine of God drunkenness. From the Persian manuscripts of Georg Léon Leszczyński . [The colored illustrations are by Fritz Berz. The cover, endpaper and vignettes were drawn by Übeidullah Ghalib]. Schahin Verlag, Munich 1921.
  5. ^ August Reichenberger: The importance of the peasant class. The farmer in the Third Reich. Verlag für Heimat und Geschichte, Obermenzing 1934.
  6. ↑ Süddeutsche Bauzeitung . Volume 30, 1920, p. 138.
  7. ↑ Apoldaer Official Journal 02/04, February 20, 2004, p. 4 with illustration and portrait photo ( digital ( Memento of the original from February 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.apolda.de
personal data
SURNAME Berz, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berz, Friedrich Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German interior designer, painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 1966
Place of death Munich