Fritz Bleyl

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Fritz Bleyl (full name: Hilmar Friedrich Wilhelm Bleyl * 8. October 1880 in Zwickau ; † 19th August 1966 in Bad Iburg ) was a German architect and painter of Expressionism .

life and work

Together with Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , Bleyl began studying architecture at the Dresden Technical University in 1901 . On June 7, 1905, Kirchner, Erich Heckel , Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Fritz Bleyl founded the artist group "Brücke" . For a short time, Bleyl also pursued the goal of a free artist's existence, but gave it up again in 1907 to become a drawing teacher and to marry.

Bleyl left the group in 1907 and settled in Freiberg in 1909 . From 1910 to 1912 he worked in the office of the Dresden architect Ernst Kühn and then until 1914 in a similar position in Rostock . In 1916 Bleyl successfully completed his doctorate with Cornelius Gurlitt in Dresden.

In 1919 he was promoted to a teacher, and in 1940 to a building officer at the Berlin State Building School. After the end of the war, he found a job as a student and building officer at the Berlin building trade school .

Between 1948 and 1949 Bleyl lived and worked in his hometown and then settled in Knechtsteden in the Rhineland. In 1952 he went to Schlebusch near Cologne for five years . In 1958 Bleyl settled in Lugano and stayed there until the end of his life.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Bleyl: Structurally and ethnologically noteworthy from the cultural areas of silver mining in Freiberg, Schneeberg and Johanngeorgenstadt in the Saxon Ore Mountains. Landesverein Sächsischer Heimatschutz, plus dissertation, Dresden 1917
  2. ^ Saxon biography: Fritz Bleyl

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personal data
SURNAME Bleyl, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bleyl, Hilmar Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwickau
DATE OF DEATH 19th August 1966
Place of death Bad Iburg