Fritz Boehle

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Fritz Boehle, self-portrait

Fritz Boehle , actually Karl Friedrich Boehle (born February 7, 1873 in Emmendingen , † October 20, 1916 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German painter , draftsman and sculptor .

Life

Fritz Boehle: Peasant woman from Emmendingen, 1902

The family moved to Frankfurt a year after Fritz Boehle was born. There the father worked as a businessman. From 1886 Fritz Boehle attended the Städelsche Kunstinstitut , a school for fine arts that still exists today. There he was a student friend of Rudolf Yelin the Elder. Ä. , whom he portrayed around 1890 and who named Boehle, who was almost ten years his junior, as an important influence on his later work. In 1892 he lived temporarily in Munich , but soon returned to Frankfurt. In 1907 he received a small gold medal at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition .

Conrad Binding , the founder of the Binding Brewery , for whom he did numerous commissioned works, was his patron . Boehle often visited his grandparents in Emmendingen and drew the guests and bizarre visitors in the Gasthof Zum Lamm , which belonged to his mother's parents. Fritz Boehle died in Frankfurt in 1916 of diabetes, which was then untreatable . He was buried in the main cemetery.

Style and works

Fritz Boehle: Striding Bull, Frankfurt
Fritz Boehle grave at the main cemetery in Frankfurt am Main

Fritz Boehle based his drawings on Albrecht Dürer and also remained traditional with his paintings. He mainly painted and drew people and animals, especially horses. Boehle also became known through etchings for calendar sheets. In his picture Heimkehr ( Homecoming) (1905) he drew a harsh German landscape with a peasant in a monumental pose.

In Günthersburgpark in Frankfurt there is a walking bull made according to his designs, there is also an equestrian statue on Wendelsplatz as the Carolus fountain in Sachsenhausen, a model of his sculpture of Charlemagne, which became the trademark of the Binding brewery.

In 2014, a studio exhibition in the Städel Museum in Frankfurt am Main was dedicated to the painter with works from the collection.

Honors

In Emmendingen, where Boehle was born, a street and a school are named after him. In Frankfurt, the Boehlepark on the Sachsenhausen mountain is a reminder of him, not far from the Sachsenhausen observation point . There is a primary school named after him in Frankfurt-Griesheim . A street in Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen has been named after him since 2008 .

literature

  • Boehle portfolio. Edited by the art warden. Munich, at Georg DW Callwey at Kunstwart-Verlag o. J.
  • Stern, Fried: Fritz Boehle as a person and artist. Klimsch, Frankfurt am Main 1917.
  • Robert Mario Bock: Fritz Boehle - the painterly work: a catalog raisonné , Verlag Weimar VDG, 1998, ISBN 3-932124-14-6
  • Robert Diehl:  Boehle, Fritz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 377 ( digitized version ).
  • Karin Groll: In search of an ideal world. In: Exhibition catalog of the Emmendingen City Archives (November 15 – December 15, 1991), pp. 33–42.
  • Karin Groll: Emmendingen Chinese and Frankfurt types: caricatures of Fritz Boehle. In: Exhibition catalog of the Emmendingen City Archives (November 15– December 15, 1991), pp. 53–58.

Web links

Commons : Fritz Boehle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.kunst-im-oefflichen-raum-frankfurt.de/de/page22.html?kuenstler=113
  2. ↑ http://www.kunst-im-oefflichen-raum-frankfurt.de/de/page22.html?id=224&kuenstler=113
  3. ↑ frankfurt-sachsenhausen.de accessed on Feb. 27, 2020
  4. ↑ Bohle Schule on frankfurt.de, accessed on Feb. 27, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Boehle, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boehle, Karl Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, draftsman and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Emmendingen
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 1916
Place of death Frankfurt am Main