Fritz Dähn
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 .
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)
- 1957: Guest exhibition at the German Academy of the Arts , Berlin
- 1961: New Life, New Art , Berlin
- 1965: Berlin-today - art exhibition, Neue Berliner Galerie
- 1969: National Gallery Berlin
- 1974–1975: Art exhibition in the capital of the GDR, exhibition center at the television tower, Berlin
- 1978: State Museum Schwerin
- 1983: Heilbronn Art Association
- 1984: Altes Museum , Berlin
- 1989: Academy of the Arts, Berlin
- 2008: Fritz Dähn and his students , Kunstkaten Ahrenshoop - Fritz Dähn - René Graetz - Herbert Sandberg , Galerie Pohl Berlin, Fritz Dähn - graphics , Art Academy Berlin-Weißensee
- 2011: Fritz Dähn - Painting and Graphics HELIOS Gallery, HELIOS Clinic Berlin-Buch
Awards
- 1958 Theodor Fontane Prize of the Potsdam district for the black pump etchings
- 1961 and 1968 Johannes R. Becher Medal
- 1962, 1968 and 1978 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze, silver and gold
- 1966 Käthe Kollwitz Prize of the Academy of Arts (Berlin)
- 1973 Labor banner
- 1980 FDGB art prize
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
- Literature by and about Fritz Dähn in the catalog of the German National Library
- Fritz Dähn in the joint project Bildatlas Art in the GDR
- Web presence
- Biography on the pages of Kunsthandel Dr. Meager
Individual evidence
personal data | |
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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 |