Fritz Geerken

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Fritz Geerken (born October 1, 1912 in Bremen-Blockland ; † December 29, 1991 in Lilienthal ) was a German painter and teacher .

biography

Geerken studied philosophy, psychology and education at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts and at the Hamburg University from 1933 to 1936 . He began his work as a teacher in 1936 at the school on Lehester Deich , then in Frankenburg. After an interruption due to military service, which he was doing as a medic, and being a prisoner of war, he resumed teaching in Borgfeld in 1947. He worked there until his retirement in 1972.

Geerken devoted his free time to painting. He found motifs for painting in his north German homeland with marshland, moor, geest and coast. Rural motifs, especially water and light, played an essential role in his pictures. There were also portraits and later impressions from trips to the north and south of Europe.

He used various techniques such as drawing with charcoal and pastel pencils, painting with oil or water colors, and mixed techniques. Graphic work was also of particular importance to him, where he developed special processes, including printing colored etchings.

Geerken has been a member of the Bremen Artists' Association since 1948. His pictures were shown in several group exhibitions in Bremen and in solo exhibitions in and around Bremen and in other cities.

Geerken had been with his wife Thea, born in 1938. Schulze married and had four children.

Works

  • Worpswede landscape with homestead , watercolor, 51 × 40 cm

Exhibitions

  • 1959: Kunsthalle Bremen , exhibition by the Bremen Artists' Association, September 13th - October 11th, 1959
  • 1963: Überseemuseum Bremen, exhibition of the Bremer Künstlerbund, November 3 - December 1, 1963
  • 2008: Exhibition with 40 panels by Fritz Geerken in the school in Bremen-Borgfeld

Honors

In Bremen- Borgfeld the Fritz-Geerken-Weg was named after him.

literature

  • Harry Methner: Fritz Geerken is exhibiting. In: Osterholzer Anzeiger. Vol. 20, H. 32, 1996, p. 22.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Local office Borgfeld, No. 12
  2. ↑ Journal entry
personal data
SURNAME Geerken, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen blockland
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1991
Place of death Lilienthal