Fritz Fröhlich (painter, 1910)

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Fritz Fröhlich
Fröhlich's frescoing of the Engelszell Collegiate Church (1956)

Fritz Fröhlich (born May 13, 1910 in Linz , † November 19, 2001 ibid) was an Austrian painter and poet .

Life

Fritz Fröhlich came from a family of railway workers and attended elementary school on the Dürnberg near Ottensheim in Upper Austria .

Between 1929 and 1937 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Wilhelm Dachauer and Ferdinand Andri . In 1937 he took part in the exhibition “Austrian Contemporary Art” in the former Südbahnhalle in Linz and began to work as a freelance artist. As early as 1938 his artistic development was interrupted by a studio fire on Dürnberg near Ottensheim. All youth work - with the exception of some outsourced work - were destroyed.

In 1940 Fröhlich was drafted into the Wehrmacht and moved into the Kagran barracks . In 1941 he married Beatrix Weißgärber. In the early summer of the same year he was transferred to the Southeastern European Front on the Black Sea and in 1945 fled from American captivity.

From 1946 Fritz Fröhlich began with various artistic experiments. His work was initially strongly influenced by his war experiences. A visit to the Picasso exhibition in Munich in 1952 was the decisive factor in his turn to analytical cubism while maintaining the representational.

A trip to Spain in 1961 was the reason for Fröhlich's examination of the Moorish culture and the historical personality of Charles V.

In 1979 a traveling exhibition was shown in the gallery of the Vienna State Opera , in the Upper Austrian Art Association , in the Landesmuseum Oldenburg , in the Nassauischer Kunstverein in Wiesbaden , in the Alpirsbach gallery and in the Landesgirokasse in Stuttgart . In the same year, 1979, the artist was honored with a "One Man Show" by Galerie Apfelbaum at Art Basel .

In 1983, a museum dedicated to him was opened in Wilhering Abbey , where Fröhlich and his wife spent most of his life with the Fritz Fröhlich Collection .

In 2000 the Nordico City Museum in Linz showed a large retrospective on the occasion of his 90th birthday.

Fritz Fröhlich died on November 19, 2001 as a result of a fall.

Works

Sgraffito representations in the fields of the sundial of the Linz country house tower by Fritz Fröhlich
Ceiling fresco Resurrection of Christ , Church of the Holy Cross Villach

In addition to numerous pictures, pastel works, peep boxes and sculptures, frescoes are also part of Fritz Fröhlich's extensive work:

Publications

  • Fritz Fröhlich. New gallery, Linz.
  • Confessio Jeremiah. Portfolio, Scripta.
  • My way as a painter. Upper Austria. Art Association, Linz.
  • Fritz Fröhlich or art in the country. Nordico, Linz.
  • Catalog raisonné I. City Galerie, Linz.
  • Fritz Fröhlich "The Art of Life" , Böhlau, Vienna.

Awards

literature

  • Reinhard Bentmann : Fritz Fröhlich. Oil-acrylic, watercolors, collages, pastels from the years 1968–1978. Galerie Apfelbaum, Karlsruhe 1978.
  • Reinhard Bentmann: Fritz Fröhlich. Traveling exhibition 1979. OÖLV Linz 1979.
  • Fritz Fröhlich. Approaching the work. Landes-Verlag, Linz 1985, ISBN 3-85214-419-1 .
  • Peter Gorsen : Fritz Fröhlich, fool and satirist of humanity. Gierig, Frankfurt am Main 1988.
  • Herbert Helml (Ed.): Fritz Fröhlich - The Art of Life. 2001, ISBN 3-205-99368-3 .

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personal data
SURNAME Happy, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and poet
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 2001
Place of death Linz