Fritz Gardener

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Fritz Gärtner (born February 28, 1882 in Aussig , † December 2, 1958 in Munich ; full name: Friedrich Anton Gärtner ) was a German painter , graphic artist , illustrator , sculptor and medalist .

Life

Fritz Gärtner was born in 1882 in Aussig, Bohemia, as the son of the senior teacher Julius Gärtner. His first training took place with the painter Josef Reiner in Aussig. In 1900 he entered Gabriel von Hackl's nature class at the Munich Art Academy . There he received further training as a student of Ludwig von Löfftz , Carl von Marr , Alexander Wagner and Peter Halm . At the beginning of the 20th century, Fritz Gärtner lived for several years in the Rhenish-Westphalian industrial area, in the Mallinckrodt house of the banker Hans Jordan , in whose garden house he set up his studio. Gärtner later worked mainly in Munich, where he died in 1958.

plant

  • The painting The Blast Furnace from around 1918 has been part of the Metallurgy Department of the collection of the Deutsches Museum in Munich since 2006 .
  • The painting Pflug und Schlot from around 1920 (approx. 1 m × 1 m, oil on canvas) was acquired in a gallery in West Berlin in the 1950s and is privately owned in Mainz-Finthen.
  • The three works Harvest Days on the Ruhr (1910), an undated version of the chimney and plow, and the industrial landscape (1929) are in the collection of the DASA - Working World Exhibition in Dortmund.
  • Some etchings can be found in the Hermann Schüling graphic collection in the library of the Justus Liebig University in Giessen .
  • The painting Mein Bruder (gardener's brother in the uniform of a medical sergeant; oil on cardboard) and the etching Red Cross , both from 1916, are in the Rotkreuz-Museum im Land Brandenburg Foundation, Luckenwalde.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klára Sofková: Tvorba německého výtvarníka Fritze Gärtnera a jeho vliv na severočeský region (The work of the German artist Fritz Gärtner and his influence on the North Bohemian region), diploma thesis, Charles University, Prague, 2015, p. 53 (Czech) ( accessed on June 13, 2019)
  2. ^ Academy of Fine Arts Munich: Matriculation book 1884–1920. Fritz Gärtner in the matriculation database. Retrieved February 3, 2011.
  3. ^ Annual report 2006 of the Deutsches Museum. (PDF file, 4.3 MB), page 118. Accessed February 3, 2011.
  4. ^ Fritz Gärtner in the library register of the University of Giessen, accessed on February 3, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Gardener, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gardener, Friedrich Anton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist, illustrator, sculptor and plaque artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Aussig
DATE OF DEATH 2nd December 1958
Place of death Munich