Fritz Fischer (painter)

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Friedrich Franz Willhelm Fischer (born August 4, 1925 in Vienna ; † October 4, 1986 there ) was an Austrian painter and graphic artist. He taught at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.

Life

Fischer was born in 1925 as the son of Siegfried Fischer (Siegfried Karl Emil Fischer, painter and member of the Vienna Circle ) and Aurelia Herklotz.

He attended elementary school in Stammersdorf near Vienna from 1931 to 1935 and, after moving to Hörlgasse in Vienna's 9th district in 1940, the grammar school there. The war-related recruitment in the labor service in 1941/42 interrupted the graduation year. It was only at the end of the war that the Matura could be rescheduled, as war Matura ( Notabitur ), where Fischer also made acquaintance with Leupold-Loewenthal and created various portraits. The following war missions in the Second World War as armored car drivers could be interrupted with release from work with the admission as a student of Sergius Pauser and Herbert Boeckl in 1942 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. War wounding and imprisonment in Germany ended missions at the front. At the end of the war he took up studies at the Vienna Academy again and graduated in 1951.

In 1953 Fritz Fischer worked on the radio station “ Rot-Weiß-Rot ” with his own composed songs and texts. In the same year he exhibited prints, lithographs and paintings in Salzburg. In 1955 and 1956 he alternately shared joint studios in Vienna and Venice with Kurt Moldovan , who would later become godfather of his son Valentin. In 1956 he received a scholarship to Amsterdam, where he created numerous ink watercolors, pen and colored pencil drawings, some of which were bought by the Stedelijk Museum. In 1957, Fischer took up teaching at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, today's University of Applied Arts Vienna . Many public and private contracts followed. In 1963 he ended his teaching activity and deepened his work in the studio as well as in the public sector. In 1974 the ORF made the film "A day in the life of a painter" about Fischer. With increasing age, an intensive examination of different techniques developed and large-scale gouaches, paintings as well as cycles and studies were created.

Fritz Fischer died in 1986 in his studio in Vienna.

Awards

  • Master School Award of the Academy of Fine Arts
  • Austrian graphic artist award, Innsbruck
  • Theodor Körner Prize , City of Vienna

Works (selection)

  • 1948 painting “Father”, Fischer Collection
  • 1949 painting “Handelskai”, Fischer Collection
  • 1950 painting “Portrait of a Psychology Student”, Fischer Collection
  • 1955 painting "Portrait of Kurt Moldovan", Fischer Collection
  • 1975 (?) Pen-and-ink drawing "Wurzel", Albertina Vienna
  • 1986 Gouache "Scheißleben", Albertina Vienna

Exhibitions

Fischer had exhibitions in Vienna, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, Bern, Ankara and at the São Paulo Biennale .

Purchases

literature

  • THE SIXTIES, a fantastic modernity. MUSA; Cultural Department of the City of Vienna, Berthold Ecker, Wolfgang Hilger; Springer, Vienna / New York / Vienna March 2011, ISBN 978-3-7091-0743-0 .
  • Stephan Fischer: Life and work of the painter Fritz Fischer (1925-1986). Vienna 2008.
  • Catalog for the “Memorial Exhibition” in the Graz Kulturhaus on February 27, 1992. by Fischer, Fischer, Schmeller , Breicha .
  • Gottfried Layr, Kurt Panzenberger: Austrian watercolorists of the present. Vienna 1984, ISBN 3-85175-378-X .
  • Claus Pack: Modern graphics in Austria. Vienna 1969, ISBN 3-85175-378-X .
  • Gerhard Fritsch : Between Kirkens and Bari. Vienna 1952.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fischer Collection: List of works by Fritz Fischer ( Memento of November 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 5.6 MB) page 8; "Portrait of a Psychology Student"
  2. ↑ http://sammlung-fischer.at/images/taufschein.jpg ( Memento from November 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ "Father" ( Memento from November 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Painting "Handelskai" ( Memento from November 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Painting "Portrait of a Psychology Student" ( Memento from November 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ^ Painting "Portrait of Kurt Moldovan" ( Memento from November 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ^ Pen- and-ink drawing "Root" ( Memento from November 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Gouache “Scheißleben” ( Memento from November 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fischer, Friedrich Franz Willhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 4th October 1986
Place of death Vienna