Fritz Erler (painter)

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Fritz Erler - Self-Portrait (1908)
Name of Fritz Erler on a mural in the Kurhaus Wiesbaden

Fritz Erler (born December 15, 1868 in Frankenstein in Silesia , † December 11, 1940 in Munich ) was a German painter , graphic artist and set designer . His brother Erich was also a painter.

Career

The first violets , 1901 ( Museum Georg Schäfer , Schweinfurt)

From 1886 Fritz Erler studied with Albrecht Bräuer at the Royal Art School in Breslau and from 1892 to 1894 attended the Académie Julian in Paris. In 1895 he came to Munich and lived in Holzhausen am Ammersee from 1918 . In 1893 he created his first craft designs: vases, glass windows, book covers, later furniture, stages and interior decoration. In 1896 he co-founded the magazine Die Jugend and in 1899 a founding member of the artists' association Die Scholle .

meaning

Help us win , 1917

Alongside Arthur Kampf, Fritz Erler was one of the official military painters at the time of the First World War . The Supreme Army Command used his commissioned paintings for war propaganda. The advertising poster for the sixth war loan was z. B. from his painting Help us win! adorned. It brought the Reichsbank the second highest result of all new loans, at 13.1 million marks.

He also painted numerous portraits: around the turn of the century he painted Richard Strauss and Gerhart Hauptmann . In the time of National Socialism he was very successful with portraits of Adolf Hitler , Franz von Epp and Wilhelm Frick . Erler was an honorary member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and Milan , a corresponding member of the Vienna Secession , the Salon d'Automne in Paris , a member of the German Association of Artists , the German Werkbund and the Munich Secession . He was awarded the Bavarian Maximilian Order in 1928 . Works by Fritz Erler fetched around € 30,000 at Zezschwitz in 2006.

Art-historical classification

Fritz Erler's paintings and frescoes were large and decorative. The motifs were mostly borrowed from Germanic mythology . Erler was represented with many of these early works in the Heinrich Kirchhoff collection. Since 1898 he created murals, frescoes and decorative paintings, so z. B. 1907 the frescoes in the Wiesbadener Kurhaus and the wall and ceiling paintings for the exhibition restaurant of the exhibition Munich 1908. How appreciated and successful Fritz Erler was already at this time is proven not only by regular participation in all major German art exhibitions, but also by the fact that since 1910 a permanent exhibition space in the modern gallery Heinrich Thannhauser in Munich had been reserved for his works.

Exhibitions

  • 2016: Fritz Erler in Verdun - From the clod to war. Wiesbaden Museum , Wiesbaden.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Erler, Fritz ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on July 27, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  2. ↑ Bernd Fäthke : Decorative and Conservative, The frescos in the shell hall of the Wiesbaden Kurhaus by Fritz Erler. In: Wiesbaden International. 4/1975, p. 22 ff
  3. ↑ Mind Warrior. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung from July 31, 2016, page R5.

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personal data
SURNAME Erler, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and stage designer
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankenstein (Silesia)
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1940
Place of death Munich