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Fritz Flinte (born May 20, 1876 in Hamburg , † August 29, 1963 in Hamburg) was a German painter and co-founder of the Hamburg Secession .

education

In 1893 Flinte left school with the “secondary school leaving certificate” in order to train as a turner in his father's company . After graduating, he worked for his father for some time, but at the same time attended drawing courses at the trade school, probably in Altona (according to Ewers-Schultz, p. 11). Between 1896 and 1898 he studied at the School of Applied Arts in Hamburg. For financial reasons, a change of location and attendance at an art academy was not an option . The training at the arts and crafts school was geared towards the needs of trade and craft rather than artistic ones. That the arts and crafts school was more of a stopgap solution can be seen from a traditional remark by Flintes: "Painting is not a shoemaker's trade" .

Flinte tried several times for scholarships at art academies, but initially unsuccessfully. Towards the end of the 1890s he turned to the Hamburg art gallery director Alfred Lichtwark , who encouraged him to continue pursuing his artistic career. Despite a letter of recommendation from Lichtwark, Flinte was unable to obtain the necessary scholarship. For a few years he worked as a decorative painter and house painter.

In 1901, thanks to Lichtwark's support, he got an art scholarship that enabled him to study at the Stuttgart Academy . There he was enrolled in the painting class of Carlos Grethe (1846–1913) from 1901 to 1905 . He took the drawing courses with Robert Poetzelberger (1856–1930). In Stuttgart , Flinte was also a member of the Stuttgart Artists Association founded by his two teachers and the Stuttgart Academy Director Leopold von Kalckreuth . After the end of his academic training Flinte was again from 1905 worked in Hamburg as a freelance artist. In 1919 he joined the Hamburg Secession . From 1922 he was a member of the Hamburg Artists' Association from 1832 . It was also a member of the Hamburg Art Association .

Work and creation

The painterly development of Flintes is hampered by the lack of dating of his works. Travel and various documents provide framework data. Stylistic analyzes of his works are all the more important, especially since his work presents itself as an independent oeuvre independent of the respective time fashions and trends.

At the beginning of his free work he was preoccupied with plein-air painting , which originated in France . In Hamburg this style had representatives in the members of the Hamburg Artists' Club . In particular, the work of Thomas Herbst seems to have served as a source of inspiration for Flintes. But reminiscences from Dutch painting are also recognizable.

Even at this early point in his artistic development, the still life was very important in Flintes work. The academic study can still be recognized stylistically here. In the beach scenes created in 1911 on the Elbe near Blankenese , on the other hand, one recognizes the involvement with the Impressionist painting style of the French artists.

A total of three classic groups of motifs characterize Flintes' oeuvre: the still life with the subgroups table-still life and bouquet of flowers, the self-portrait and the landscape. The latter, however, to a far lesser extent than the aforementioned.

Flinte presented his first solo exhibition at the Commeter Gallery in Hamburg in 1911. Despite positive reviews in the press, other exhibitions were not booked again until the late 1920s.

During the First World War , Flinte received a draft notice in 1916. In the second half of the year he took part in the Romanian campaign. However, due to illness he was able to return to Hamburg. In 1920 he married Mathilde Friederika Wolff from Nordleda in the Lüneburg Heath and in 1921 and 1923 he had a son and a daughter.

After the end of the First World War, Flinte was a founding member of the Hamburg Secession in 1919 together with Johannes Wüsten and Heinrich Steinhagen . In 1933 he showed a solo exhibition at the Kunstverein Hamburg . He then left Hamburg for longer stays in Paris and Italy because of Hamburg scholarships.

After the Hamburg Secession dissolved itself as a reaction to the politics of the ruling Nazis , the very withdrawn artist nevertheless kept in close contact with friends from the Secession. Together with Fritz Kronenberg , Karl Kluth and Emil Maetzel , he took a trip to Denmark and southern Sweden around 1934 .

Although Flintes painting style did not correspond to the propagated Nazi classicism, he was allowed to exhibit even after the transfer of power in 1933 and even received state grants.

In a bomb attack on his hometown in 1943 , part of his work burned in his private apartment. His studio, where the majority of his works were stored, was spared.

In the mid-1950s, Fritz Flinte gave up painting. In 1960 he handed over his studio, which had served him as a workplace since 1912, to the painter Heinz Glüsing . He died of heart failure on August 29, 1963 while preparing for a major retrospective .
Fritz Flinte was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery , grid square AF 39 (entrance Kornweg , north of Chapel 9).

Seven paintings and works on paper by Flinte are in Wilhelm Werner's private collection .

Honors and prizes

Fritz Flinte received numerous honors and awards.

  • In 1950 the Hamburg Senate honored the shotgun with an honorary salary.
  • Honorary member of the professional association of visual artists Hamburg.
  • Member of the Free Academy of the Arts Hamburg.
  • 1962 Awarded the Edwin Scharff Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg for 1961.
  • In the 1970s a street in the Hamburg district of Steilshoop was named after him (Fritz-Flinte-Ring).

literature

  • Ina Ewers-Schultz: The Hamburg painter Fritz Flinte. 1876-1963. Search for clues. Published by Hamburger Sparkasse. Hamburg 2000

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Celebrity Graves
  2. ↑ exact grave location on: Interactive map of Ohlsdorf
  3. ^ Ulrich Luckhardt: The collection of the caretaker Wilhelm Werner (= catalog for the exhibition from September 18, 2011 to January 15, 2012 in the Hamburger Kunsthalle). Mare Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-936543-72-8 , p. 33
personal data
SURNAME Shotgun, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1963
Place of death Hamburg