Fritz Duda
Fritz Duda (born January 30, 1904 in Horst / Gelsenkirchen ; † July 13, 1991 in Berlin ) was a German painter and graphic artist.
Duda studied from 1922 to 1924 at the Folkwang School in Essen and from 1924 to 1933 as a student and master class student with Karl Hofer and Paul Plontke at the Berlin-Charlottenburg / Berlin-Weißensee School of Art . He was a member of Asso Berlin from 1928 , and in 1929 he joined the KPD opposition (KPO). In 1930 he was one of the founders of the Red Student Union at the art college, in 1933 he was excluded from the art college and lived as a freelance artist, in 1936 he was banned from exhibiting, and until 1939 he traveled to Austria, Denmark, CSR and Switzerland. From 1939 he was a draftsman and model maker in an architecture office and worked in the political underground with contacts to the KPO, KPD and the resistance group " Rote Kapelle ".
In 1944 his studio was bombed out and led to the loss of the studio and all of his work in Berlin. From 1945 he was again freelance and participated in the reconstruction of the KPD, the municipal administration of Berlin and in the reconstruction of the Association of Fine Artists (SbK) in the FDGB. He joined the SED and was on the board of the Association of Visual Artists from 1948 to 1949 . From 1950 to 1956 he was excluded from the SED because of his earlier membership in the KPO. In 1950 he was a co-founder of the Association of Visual Artists (VBK-GDR) and an official of the association, from 1958 he made a lot of study trips to, among others: Bulgaria, Moscow, Leningrad, Central Asian Soviet Republics, Kraków and Colmar. He was housed in the so-called intelligence settlement in Berlin-Schönholz near Strasse 201 .
Exhibitions
- until 1933 participation in exhibitions in Berlin, Essen, Münster, Kassel, Dortmund, etc. a.
- 1935 collective exhibition "Ruhrgebiet" Galerie Gurlit Berlin
- 1936 Participation in the exhibition of young painters in the Galerie van der Heyde Berlin (exhibition had to be closed immediately)
- 1946 Participation in the Weissensee art show, the General German Art Exhibition Dresden a. a.
- 1948 Solo exhibition in the Franz Gallery, Berlin-Wilmersdorf
- 1951 Participation in the exhibition “Artists create for peace”, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
- 1959 Solo exhibition in the "Small Gallery Pankow"
- 1962 Deutsche Bücherstube, Berlin
- 1962–1964 Traveling exhibition of 100 works in the GDR in Altenburg, Karl-Marx-Stadt, Stralsund, Senftenberg and Luckau.
- 1964 Solo exhibition at the International Exhibition Center Berlin
- 1974 Solo exhibition in the Neue Berliner Galerie in the Altes Museum Berlin
- 1980 Participation in the "Berlin Atelier 2" in the exhibition center at the television tower in Berlin
- 1989 Ephraim-Palais Berlin
Awards
- 1965 Käthe Kollwitz Prize of the German Academy of the Arts, Berlin
- 1968 Johannes R. Becher Medal in silver
- 1969 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
- 1974 GDR Art Prize
- 1974 honorary member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR
- 1976 Medal of Honor of the Committee of Antifascist Resistance Fighters in the GDR
- 1978 Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold
- 1980 Goethe Prize of the City of Berlin
- 1982 Hans Grundig Medal of the VBK-GDR
- 1984 National Prize of the GDR 2nd class for art and culture
source
- Lothar Lang: Artist in Berlin. Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1979
literature
- Edith Krull: Duda. Painter and work. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden (painter and work series), 1980
- Short biography for: Duda, Fritz . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Web links
- Fritz Duda Archive in the Archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Duda, Fritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 30, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | horst |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 13, 1991 |
| Place of death | Berlin |