Fritz Halberg-Krauss

Friedrich Wilhelm Theodor Maximilian Krauss (* 23. March 1874 in Stadtprozelten ; † 1. September 1951 in Prien am Chiemsee ) was a German landscape painter of Impressionism and important representative of the Munich School .

Life

Fritz (baptized name: Friedrich Wilhelm Maximilian Theodor) was born as the fourth child of the Straubing pharmacist Johann Paul Krauss and his wife Maria Auguste, née Dietsch, from Marktbreit, in 1874 in Stadtprozelten am Main. The father ran the city pharmacy here from 1870 to 1875. In 1884 the 10-year-old moved with his family from Bamberg to Munich. So far there is no information about his school education. In 1893 he was listed as a magistrate's assistant, later as a “retired clerk of the second class and painter”, when he assumed the artist name “Halberg-Krauss” around 1900. Presumably he trained himself as a landscape painter, but the influences of the work of the painters Josef Wenglein and Eduard Schleich the Elder are clear, as well as other well-known artists of the Munich School, such as August Fink , Adolf Lier and August Seidel .

In 1906 he married Stephanie Schmitt, but the marriage did not last long: just two years later he had a second marriage with Ludowika Rosenberger. In 1908 the son Richard was born. He lived with his family in Munich-Neuhausen, interrupted by a lengthy war-related stay in Bad Endorf from 1940 to 1945 . After a long illness he died at the age of 77 in Prien am Chiemsee hospital .

Portrait

• Rudolph Tillmetz (1880–1966): "Portrait of Fritz Halberg-Krauss", 1944; Fig .: Karl J. Aß (arrangement): Fritz Halberg-Krauss 1874–1951 . Prien 1996, p. 4.

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Halberg-Krauss never went to a painting school. His training took place via the study of master paintings from 1840 to 1870 and excursions into the landscape around Munich. He visited the upper Isar landscape and the high moors and areas near Penzberg , Beuerberg and Großkarolinenfeld , in the Dachauer Moos and The Bavarian Alps and their foothills. He was particularly fond of spending time in the northern heathland, where pictures were created with great forcefulness through the interplay of light, air and clouds in their seasonal changes. Excursions also took him to the foothills of the Alps and especially to the Ammersee with its quiet bays and the large trees that are reflected in the water.

Since he painted in the style of the Barbizon School during the war, he was allowed to continue his art. During this time, in contrast to the "Expressionists", he continued to receive commissions. He showed his work on the occasion of the important art exhibitions of the time. His late work from around 1940 in particular is highly valued today and is a characteristic example of contemporary open-air painting with its bright colors and the confident brushstroke that characterizes the sketchy pictures of the 1940s. Halberg-Krauss is considered the last representative of the old "Munich School". In 1996 the market town of Prien was able to take over 128 works from the estate of the artist's granddaughter.

Exhibitions

• Munich, Glaspalast, 1908 to 1922; Maximilianeum (replacement exhibition) 1936
• Munich, Great German Art Exhibition in the House of German Art, Munich (1937–1944)
• Prien am Chiemsee, 1st German art exhibition in 1945

posthumously:

• Munich, exhibition "The Munich School 1850-1914", (catalog) 1979
• Bruckmühl, Galerie Markt Bruckmühl, solo exhibition, 2001
• Prien, gallery in the old town hall, solo exhibition 2010

literature

• Art. Volume XI. 1905, p. 190.
• Georg Jakob Wolf: Art and Artists in Munich - Studies and Essays . Munich 1908, p. 117 ff.
• Halberg-Kraus, Fritz . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 496 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of the visual artists of the 20th century . Volume 2. Leipzig 1953, p. 356.
• Werner Loibl: A sensitive porter of our homeland , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung. City indicator . Volume 30, No. 25, March 26, 1974, p. 7.
• Hans Heyn: South German painting . Rosenheim 1979, pp. 108-109, 223.
• Lorenz Reitmeir: Dachau. Views and testimonies from twelve centuries, the other part . Dachau 1979, p. 257 ff.
• Lorenz Reitmeir: Dachau. Views and testimonies from twelve centuries, the last part of the trilogy . Dachau 1982, p. 236 ff.
• Gerhard Schober: Pictures from the five-lake region . Starnberg 1979, p. 312.
• Fritz Aigner: Painter on the Chiemsee . Prien o. J. (1983), p. 294 ff, 365.
• Fritz Aigner: With the painters through the district of Rosenheim . Rosenheim o. J. (1989), pp. 380-381, 394-395, 493.
• Painting Cabinett Unger (ed.): Highlights of the mountain world . Exhibition catalog. Munich 1989.
• Painting Cabinett Unger (ed.): Art in the 3rd Reich - admired and frowned upon . Exhibition catalog (paintings, watercolors and bronzes). Munich, undated
• Horst Ludwig: Fink, Halberg-Krauss and Bröcker - Wenglein's successors , in: Weltkunst , 50th year, No. 20, 1989, p. 3056 ff.
• Bruckmann's Lexicon of Munich Art. Munich painter in the 19th century . Volume 5. Munich 1993, pp. 339-340.
• Karl J. Aß (text and design): Fritz Halberg-Krauss 1874–1951 . At the same time catalog of the exhibition in Prien from November 23, 1996 to January 26, 1997. Marktgemeinde Prien 1996.
• Scientific inventory catalogs of the Neue Pinakothek. Vol. VIII, 1–3: German artists from Marées to Slevogt. Edited by Christian Lenz, Barbara Hardtwig, Andrea Pophanken, Veronika Schroeder and Felix Billeter. Hirmer Verlag, Munich 2003.

Web links

• Fritz Halberg-Krauss on ovb-online.de
• ovb-heimatzeitungen.de
• Fritz Halberg-Krauss (curriculum vitae) on inselgaleriegailer.de
• Fritz Halberg-Kraus at the Isolde Weiss gallery

Individual evidence

1. ↑ faulbach.de (PDF).