Fritz Getlinger

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Memorial plaque in the Althof Retz

Fritz Getlinger (born June 21, 1911 in Retz (Lower Austria), † November 16, 1998 in Kleve ) was a German photographer .

life and work

Getlinger was born in 1911 as the son of a wine grower. In 1930 he passed his journeyman's examination and in 1933 his master's examination as a hairdresser and worked in Judenburg in Styria until 1938 . In 1938 he moved to Brandenburg an der Havel , where he met the actress Josepha Ortmann, whom he married in 1940. The following year the daughter Katharina was born. During this time he devoted himself to photography in his spare time.

From 1940 to 1944, during the Second World War , he was stationed in Russia and from 1944 to 1945 deployed as a paratrooper on the Lower Rhine . After the war he lived with his wife and daughter in Rotenburg (Wümme) until 1949 , where he worked as a hairdresser and a make-up artist at the theater. During this time photography became more and more important for him. In 1948 Josepha Getlinger-Ortmann got an engagement at the Klever Theater on the Lower Rhine, whereupon the entire family moved to Kleve in 1950 . From then on, Getlinger worked as a press photographer, for example for the Rheinische Post , and made numerous trips to Italy , France , Spain , Morocco , Yugoslavia and Iraq , which he documented with photos.

Fritz Getlinger was closely connected to the artists living and working in Kleve and cultivated contacts and friendships with, among others, Willy Maywald and Joseph Beuys , whom Getlinger got to know in 1950 in the studio tower of the Kleve artist Hanns Lamers on the property of the BC Koekkoek house . He made several portraits of him and documented his artistic activity with his camera over and over again. In 1961 he created the photographs for Joseph Beuys' application portfolio for a professorship at the Düsseldorf Art Academy .

On the Lower Rhine, Getlinger was mainly known for his photographs, which show the change in cities and villages on the Lower Rhine and the world of work in the post-war period. In 1976 he retired as a photographer at the Rheinische Post. In 1981 his wife Josepha Getlinger-Ortmann died.

In 1994 the Republic of Austria awarded him the Silver Medal of Honor . In 1995 he received the gold medal of the city of Retz. In 1996 he received the Johann Moritz Culture Prize from the city of Kleve. Getlinger died in 1998.

Exhibitions, honors and prizes

  • 1937: Judenburg, Styria; 1st prize children's photo
  • 1951: Photokina , Cologne
  • 1957: International Exhibition , Bangalore , India
  • 1958: International Exhibition, Bordeaux , France ; Diploma silver medal
  • 1961: Kleve, Germany
  • 1987: Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg , USA
  • 1990: Kalkar , Germany
  • 1991: Joseph Beuys on his 70th birthday: Photographs by Fritz Getlinger and multiples by Joseph Beuys , Ilverich Gallery, Ilverich
  • 1995: Rotenburg / Wümme, Germany
  • 1996: City Museum BC Koekkoek House , Kleve; Johann Moritz Culture Prize of the City of Kleve
  • 2000: Kleve, Germany

Photo books

  • Fritz Getlinger: Das Klever Land , picture description by Friedrich Gorissen , Essen 1958
  • Fritz Getlinger: Photo cassette Joseph Beuys , with an original work by the artist, Munich 1981
  • Fritz Getlinger / Alois Puyn: Of fields, animals and people. The change in agriculture , Kleve 1985
  • Fritz Getlinger / Alois Puyn: rubble, hope, new life - Kleve after the war. Destruction and reconstruction , Kleve 1986
  • Gerhard Kaldewei (ed.): Getlinger photographed Beuys 1950–1963 , Cologne 1990

literature

  • Guido de Werd (foreword): Fritz Getlinger. Joseph Beuys and the 'tram stop' , Museum Kurhaus Kleve, March 19 to June 18, 2000, Kleve 2000, ISBN 3-934935-01-X

Web links

Notes and individual references

  1. http://www.museumkurhaus.de/download/Fritz%20Getlinger%20-%20Info%20NL%20(Mail-Version)_01.doc
  2. ^ Fritz Getlinger in the Museum Kurhaus Kleve
  3. Guido de Werd (foreword): Fritz Getlinger. Joseph Beuys and the 'tram stop' , Kleve 2000, p. 9