Fritz Burger-Mühlfeld
Fritz Burger-Mühlfeld (born March 3, 1882 in Augsburg ; † May 17, 1969 in Hanover ) was a German painter and graphic artist of the New Objectivity and later Expressionism and Abstract Expressionism. Influences of Cubism and Constructivism are characteristic of his late work.
Life
His parents ran the "label and poster factory Augsburg, F. Burger". Fritz Burger studied in 1901 with Franz von Stuck at the Munich Art Academy . Here he was friends with Albert Weisgerber , who later portrayed him (1911). To distinguish himself from the painter of the same name Fritz Burger (1867-1927) and the art historian Fritz Burger (1877-1916), he added his mother's maiden name to his name. In 1906 he took part in the exhibition of the Munich Secession for the first time .
In 1909 he became head of the graphics class at the Hanover School of Crafts and Applied Arts . Pictures from this period are committed to the New Objectivity . From 1914 to 1916 he was a soldier in the First World War, from this year (1916) his famous self-portrait as a soldier comes. In 1917 he founded the Hanover Secession . Exhibitions in the Kestner Society followed . In 1918 he completed his habilitation. In the 1920s his works were exhibited in Munich and Berlin.
The increasing influences of Expressionism and Cubism in Burger-Mühlfeld's work meant that his pictures were stigmatized as degenerate art. In 1937 his pictures were shown and defamed alongside those of other artists in the National Socialist "Exhibition for Degenerate Art ". In 1942 he became a soldier again and fought in World War II . In 1947 he gave up teaching. He died in Hanover in 1969.
Works
Some of his works are in the Robert Simon Collection and are exhibited in the Kunstmuseum Celle . From November 2011 to February 2012 an extensive exhibition of his works took place in the Schaezlerpalais through the art collections and museums of his hometown Augsburg .
Literature (selection)
- Fritz Burger-Mühlfeld . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 15, Saur, Munich a. a. 1996, ISBN 3-598-22755-8 , p. 205.
- Schumann, Werner: Burger-Mühlfeld. Göttingen 1967
- Ludwig Zerull (red., Layout), Günter Barz, Michael Herling (photos): Hanoverian painter of the New Objectivity , accompanying document to the (traveling) exhibition of the Lower Saxony Sparkasse Foundation with pictures from the collections of the Stadtsparkasse Hanover , the Lower Saxony Sparkasse Foundation and the Sprengel Museum Hanover , Ed .: Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung, self-published, Hanover: Th. Schäfer Druckerei, 1991, passim
- Hugo Thielen : Burger-Mühlfeld, Fritz. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 80, online via Google books
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Angela Bachmair: A painter from Augsburg. In: augsburger-allgemeine.de. Augsburger Allgemeine , November 17, 2011, accessed on May 19, 2014 .
- ↑ Pictures of Modernity. In: celle.de. City of Celle, accessed on May 19, 2014 .
- ↑ Fritz Burger-Mühlfeld. In: kunstsammlungen-museen.augsburg.de. Archived from the original on April 23, 2014 ; Retrieved May 19, 2014 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Burger-Mühlfeld, Fritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 3, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Augsburg , Bavaria , German Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th May 1969 |
| Place of death | Hanover , Lower Saxony , Germany |