Fritz Burkhardt

Fritz Burkhardt (born September 3, 1900 in Arnstein / Mainfranken , † April 7, 1983 Munich ) was a Munich graphic artist and painter . He is counted among the Lost Generation .

Life

Burkhardt grew up in Hersbruck near Nuremberg . From 1910 he attended high school in Nuremberg and was trained as a teacher in Eichstätt from 1914 to 1920 , where he also met Eduard Aigner .

In 1921 he went to Iphofen , studied from 1924 to 1927 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Adolf Schinnerer , received a scholarship from the city of Munich in 1928 and went on a trip to Italy. 1930–1934 he was a member of the jury free .

He became friends with Max Radler in 1931 and won the Albrecht Dürer Prize of the city of Nuremberg in 1934 . Then he went on a trip to Paris. During National Socialism he withdrew and only worked sparsely in secret.

When his studio was hit during a bombing in the last year of the war, many works were irretrievably lost. In 1946 he became a founding member of the Neue Gruppe . Burkhardt died on April 7, 1983 in Munich.

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Burkhardt's main work was created during the late years of the Weimar Republic in the 1930s. It often shows off the beaten track topics like prostitution , murder, and crime . His predominantly graphic work is still influenced by the dwindling expressionism , so his drawings and graphic works are often heavily contrasted. The portraits of women and nudes, for which prostitutes often stood as models, are strongly sexually charged, and their bodies are depicted unadorned. Comments and cracks in dialogue on the pages at the edge or on the back, sometimes simply thrown between the sketches, round off the working method. The painted pictures are dominated by blue, gray and green tones, the bodies are distorted in perspective and elongated. The influences of Modigliani's perspective could have led to this after Burkhardt's trip to Italy. Nightlife and scenes from brothels and pubs are also recurring themes in his work. It can be assumed that he came under pressure from the National Socialists in Munich because of his issues and therefore had to withdraw from the active art scene.

From 1950 to 1983 he was represented every year with one work in the Great Art Exhibition in Munich in the Haus der Kunst . Illustrations of the works can be found in the catalogs for the years 1953 and 1972 to 1983.

Exhibitions

• 2017 - Kunstmuseum Hersbruck - Die Verschollenen - A documentation of the fresco on the Hersbruck town hall (1937–1945) and works from various collections (September 21 to December 17, 2017)

Publications

• Modern graphics the Expressionists: "Die Brücke", Beckmann, Kokoschka u. a. The New Objectives: George Grosz, Otto Dix. The newer Munich graphics, [Munich-Schwabing, March - April 1946], exhibition catalog, Munich 1946: Freitag-Verlag (introductory text from FB)
• Modern graphics Munch, Ensor, Picasso. Expressionists and abstracts: Nolde, "Brücke", Kokoschka, Beckmann, Feininger a. a. The New Objectives and the Munich: Dix, Grosz, Schrimpf u. a. [June, July, August 1946], exhibition catalog, Munich 1946: Freitag-Verlag (introductory text from FB)
• The "Neue Deutsche Graphik", in: Prisma 1. Jg. (1946?), Issue 2

literature

• Munich 1869–1958. Departure for modern art , exhibition catalog, Haus der Kunst, Munich 1958
• Fritz Burkhardt - Erotic Breviary 1924–1935. Oil paintings, watercolors, drawings and prints by the Munich veristic erotomaniac , Galerie Bernd Dürr, Munich 1989. ISBN 3-927872-08-3
• Klaus Göbel: Another painter from Arnstein: Fritz Burkhardt . In: Jahrbuch des Heimatkundevereins Arnstein (1996), pp. 165–173
• Anette Doms, New Paths. About the situation and reception of modern painting in the post-war period in Munich. Diss. Munich 2004, p. 154
• Birgit Rauschert, in: Die Verschollenen , exhibition catalog, Kunstmuseum Hersbruck, Hersbruck 2017

Web links

• Portrait on the website Lost Generation of the FE Stainless art dealer
• Short portrait at artfacts
• Burkhart with self-portrait at Galerie Bernd Duerr - Click on the pop-up window for a closer view.
• Franz Burkhardt in HeidICON illustrations of the Simpl

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Great rush for the "missing". (No longer available online.) Hersbruck Art Museum, archived from the original on October 8, 2017 ; accessed on October 8, 2017 . 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 notice.