Fritz Discher

Fritz Discher (born September 8, 1880 in Landsberg an der Warthe , † February 23, 1983 in Kochel am See ) was a German painter .

Live and act

Fritz Discher, who moved to Berlin with his parents in 1884 , initially completed an apprenticeship as a mechanic at the Carl Flohr machine factory in Berlin, before continuing his education at the municipal industrial / technical institute of the city of Berlin from 1899. From 1906 he studied at the Royal University of Fine Arts in Charlottenburg with professors Anton von Werner , Maximilian Schaefer and Ernst Hancke . In 1914 Discher took part in the summer school of the Munich portrait painter Professor Walter Thor .

In 1909 Discher became a subject teacher at the municipal trade hall in Berlin and from the end of 1924 he had his own studio as a freelance portrait painter.

Participation in exhibitions

• 1910 Great Berlin art exhibition
• 1911 Great Berlin art exhibition
• 1921 Great Berlin art exhibition

Selection of works

• Early self-portrait , 1904, private collection
• Lautenburger See with riverside forest , oil painting, around 1908/09 ( Münster , West Prussian State Museum )
• Lautenburg in Winter , oil painting, around 1908/09 (Münster, West Prussian State Museum)
• Szczecin Harbor , oil painting, 1921, private property
• Girl from Lenggries with two horses , oil painting, around 1955, private property

literature

• Fritz Discher: Rügen impressions. Paintings, watercolors, drawings, etchings, Pommern Foundation , Kiel 1990.
• Fritz Discher: Lautenburger winter pictures and other paintings. Exhibition from November 30, 1991 to March 8, 1992 in the West Prussian State Museum , responsible and exhibition director Hans-Jürgen Schuch, in collaboration with Klaus Becker and Jutta Reisinger, Münster 1991.
• Klaus Lankheit (Ed.): Memories of the painter and engineer Fritz Discher , Benediktbeuern 1992.