Fritz Fischer (graphic artist)

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Fritz Fischer (born March 17, 1911 in Unterwiesenthal , † November 17, 1968 in Munich ) was a German draftsman and book illustrator.

Life

From 1921 Fischer was a student at the Kassberg Gymnasium in Chemnitz , where he graduated from high school in 1931. He then began studying at the TH Dresden and then switched to the Leipzig Art Academy (teachers Alois Kolb and Walter Tiemann ). He had his first exhibition while still a student, and after graduating, Fischer worked as a press illustrator for the Neue Leipziger Zeitung. In 1935 Gotthard de Beauclair brokered the first book illustration for Insel Verlag , Wilhelm Hauff's fairy tale The Cold Heart . During the war he was an air force soldier and was taken prisoner by the Americans. In 1950 he moved with his wife and children to a village in the Swabian Alb, Weidach near Blaubeuren, which is near Ulm. The ten years before moving to Munich in 1960 were the artist's most productive time.

Fischer's written texts for the stories and novels are inseparable from the illustrations. He copied the entire text of the original in order to get closer to the literary work of art: “At first glance, this may seem nonsensical and inefficient in our time in a hurry. For me, however, it is the shortest way to get a result, because while copying it I penetrate much deeper [...] than it is possible to just read. The decisive factor, however, is that with such a way of working, the image grows organically from the writing «.

Text and drawing form, as it were, a unit and find a typographical correspondence with difficulty in the printed books. The artist usually selected the templates himself, followed his instinct and taste and rarely fulfilled the interests of the publisher. Only after a series of images had been completed did he set about finding ways to publish it. Much of his work remained unpublished. There are no prints of him.

Book illustrations (selection)

literature

  • Manfred Badorrek: Fritz Fischer. Catalog of the illustrated books 1935-1984 . Memmingen, Edition Carl Viesel 1984 (= artist monographs, volume 5)
  • Karl-Hartmut Kull: The graphic artist Fritz Fischer and the Insel-Bücherei , in: Mitteilungen für Freunde der Insel-Bücherei No. 30, p. 37 ff., Insel Verlag, Berlin 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Weltstimme, born 27. 1958. Quoted from Manfred Badorrek: Fritz Fischer. Catalog of the illustrated books 1935-1984 . Memmingen, Edition Carl Viesel 1984 (= artist monographs, volume 5), p. [6])
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman and book illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Unterwiesenthal
DATE OF DEATH 17th November 1968
Place of death Munich