Fritz Cobet

Fritz Cobet (born October 27, 1885 in Lippstadt ; † February 8, 1963 in Bremen ) was a German artist.

Life

Fritz Cobet was the offspring of a French Huguenot family . His artistic talent was noticed from an early age. Art was in his blood, so to speak. His mother Amalie was the daughter of the Düsseldorf genre painter Carl Hilgers (1818–1890). The takeover of his parents' wine and spirits wholesaler was therefore out of the question for him. Fritz Cobet grew up with five sisters. Perhaps this was the starting point for his humorous and honest demeanor until his death. As an enthusiastic hunter and hunter, he was very close to nature.

Art education and work

Fritz Cobet self-portrait 1962 - unfinished

After seven years of studying at the art academy in Kassel with Carl Holzapfel (1865-1926) and Hermann Knackfuß (1848-1915) and the University of Fine Arts in Munich, his first independent work was carried out in the Dachau artists' colony . Fritz Cobet came to Fischerhude for the first time around 1910 and was enthusiastic about the north German landscape. The Fischerhude art scene was already home to the first Fischerhude artist, "artist father " Heinrich Breling (1849–1914), Wilhelm Heinrich Rohmeyer (1882–1936) and Otto Modersohn (1865–1943), who, like Fritz Cobet, was also born in East Westphalia . Later, Helmuth Westhoff (1891-1977), August Haake (1889-1915), Rudolf Franz Hartogh (1889-1960), Bertha Schilling (1870-1953) and Hermann Angermeyer (1876-1955) added. The writer Diedrich Speckmann (1877–1946) and the sculptor Bernhard Hoetger (1874–1949) also came to Fischerhude for a limited time. In nearby Worpswede , Fritz Cobet had contact with Fritz Mackensen (1866–1953), Carl Uphoff (1885–1971), Heinrich Vogeler (1872–1942), the writer and chronicler Edwin Koenemann (1883–1960), for whose poems he wrote several times Made drawings and the composer Ernst Licht (1892–1965) portrayed by him . In order to continue his international education, Fritz Cobet undertook extensive study trips to Italy, France, Spain and Holland.

In his artistic representations of the north German landscape, the light-flooded forests, the carefully painted naturalistic portraits, the still lifes and the graphics, the viewer recognizes the artist's late impressionist style of painting. Fritz Cobet put a great feeling into the colorful atmosphere of his work.

Bremen

Portrait of Siegmund Stumpe (lost around 1931)

In 1918 Fritz Cobet was a founding member of the "Bremer Künstlerbund".

Together with his colleagues from the Bremer Künstlerbund, he organized the lavish artist festivals in the Central Halls in the twenties and thirties . Fritz Cobet often came to Dötlingen from Bremen . Here he lived with his painter friend Marie Stumpe (1877–1946). The railway connection from Bremen via Delmenhorst to Dötlingen made it possible for Fritz Cobet to stay here regularly to pursue his artistic work. But for the time being he kept his residence in Fischerhude.

After the Nazis came to power, Fischerhude was an ideal retreat due to its remoteness. Most artist locations suffered from the persecution of free-thinking artists by the National Socialists. Fritz Cobet had repeatedly offered to become a professor at the Bremen Art School after joining the party. Fritz Cobet refused each time and was then drafted into the Wehrmacht. Because of a knee problem, it was only usable in a writing room.

In 1926 Fritz Cobet moved to Bremen and opened a studio in pointed Kiel . Until its dissolution in 1933, he belonged to the Bremen Artists Association. In 1944 a fire as a result of a bomb attack destroyed many of his works. Fritz Cobet then took over the chairmanship of the newly formed Bremen artists after the war and held it until 1955. After that he was honorary chairman for life. He was known for his fighting spirit for art and artists.

literature

• Petra Hempel: Exhibition Impression by Fritz Cobet from April 22 to June 24, 2007 at the Kunstverein Fischerhude.
• Nils Aschenbeck : Dötlingen artists' colony. ISBN 3-932292-78-2 , p. 26, p. 50.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Edwin Koenemann's diary, November 12, 1912 - January 27, 1913, owned by the Friends of Worpswedes eV