Fritz Gehrke
Fritz Ferdinand Gehrke (born July 16, 1855 in Woistenthin , Cammin district , Pomerania , † June 25, 1916 in Berlin ) was a German painter , illustrator and caricaturist .
Act
Gehrke studied at the Royal Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin with Karl Gussow . In Berlin he mainly worked as an illustrator for magazines. His works appeared in the Flying Leaves and in the Gazebo , among others . He also worked for the satirical magazines Kladderadatsch (1880–1882) and for the Ulk (1896–1914). Ceramic works were created in collaboration with Ludwig Manzel and the Cadiner Tonwarenfabriken.
He showed genre and street images at the academy exhibitions. His fresco composition Der Weltverkehr was in the atrium of the Berlin department store Wertheim . Only a few original copies of his works have survived, as they have not been archived as printing templates.
Works (selection)
- Auerbach's cellar . Illustrated by Fritz Gehrke. In: Schorer's family sheet . tape 7 , enclosure no. 12 . Berlin 1886 ( haab-digital.klassik-stiftung.de ).
- Otto König: mother and son two poems . Drawings by Fritz Gehrke. In: New German picture sheets - for young and old . No. 32 . Karl Werckmeister's Kunstverlag, Berlin 1916 ( digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de ).
literature
- Gehrke, Fritz . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 13 : Gaab-Gibus . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1920, p. 338 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Death register StA Berlin III, No. 692/1916.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gehrke, Fritz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gehrke, Fritz Ferdinand (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German genre painter and illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 16, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Woistenthin , Cammin district , Pomerania |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 25, 1916 |
| Place of death | Berlin |