Fritz Dähn

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Fritz Dähn (born January 26, 1908 in Heilbronn ; † September 16, 1980 in Heilbronn) was a German painter and rector of the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art .

Grave of Fritz Dähn in the Pankow III cemetery

Life

Fritz Dähn was born in 1908 as the son of a car mechanic. After an apprenticeship as a sign painter from 1922 to 1925 and training at the Stuttgart School of Applied Arts until 1926, Fritz Dähn went on study trips to Munich , Rome , Venice and Hamburg until 1930 . From 1930 to 1934 he studied at the Stuttgart Art Academy with Arno Waldschmit and Anton Kolig . During this time he became a member of the Stuttgart New Secession founded in 1929 . In 1934 he gave up studying because he did not want to join the NS student union . After moving into a new studio in Stuttgart, he founded a private drawing school. In 1935/36 Fritz Dähn worked as a set designer in Heilbronn. During his military service in the Wehrmacht from 1940 to 1945 as a reporter , he was seriously wounded twice and returned from American captivity with paralysis . During the war, his studio in Stuttgart and with it almost all of his early work was destroyed in a bomb attack.

After the Second World War he worked and taught from 1946 to 1948 at the Free Art School in Stuttgart . In 1948 he moved to Weimar , joined the SED and was appointed full professor at the University of Architecture and Fine Arts . In 1949 he took over the office of rector . After the reorientation of the university, he headed the Dresden University of Fine Arts from 1950 to 1953 . From 1950 to 1954, as a member of the SED parliamentary group, he was a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR . On August 31, 1951, he was appointed a member of the State Commission for Art Affairs .

In 1952 he made trips to the USSR and in 1953 to China . From 1952 to 1955 Fritz Dähn was chairman of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR and replaced Otto Nagel here. Between 1956 and 1961 he ran the central workshops in Berlin . From 1961 he became professor of panel painting at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art , of which he was rector from 1961 to 1968. In this position he was replaced by the painter Walter Womacka .

Fritz Dähn died in 1980 while visiting his hometown Heilbronn. He found his final resting place in 2001 in a Pankow cemetery .

Works

  • 1946 "war cripple"
  • 1946 "Pentheus saga"
  • 1947 "Never again!"
  • 1956 "Heilbronn"
  • 1956 "Königstrasse in Stuttgart"
  • 1960 "Still life underground"
  • 1964 "Whitsun in Ahrenshoop"
  • 1966 "House Elisabeth von Eicken"
  • 1971 "Weidendamm Bridge"
  • 1976 "Ueckermünde"
  • 1980 "Fish Traps"

Exhibitions (selection)

Awards

literature

  • Catalog for the 1957 guest exhibition of the German Academy of the Arts.
  • Kurt Schifner: Fritz Dähn, monograph. Henschelverlag, Berlin 1969.
  • Roland March: Fritz Dähn, painting and graphics . State Museums National Gallery, Berlin 1969.
  • Katrin Arrieta: Fritz Dähn, 1908–1980 painting and works on paper . MCM ART Verlag, Berlin 2008.
  • Short biography for:  Dähn, Fritz . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Neue Zeit , September 1, 1951, p. 1.
personal data
SURNAME Dähn, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, politician (SED), MdV and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Heilbronn
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1980
Place of death Heilbronn