Fritz Harnest

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Fritz Harnest at the end of December 1998 (photo by Joseph Harnest )

Fritz Harnest (born August 16, 1905 in Munich , † January 28, 1999 in Traunstein ) was a German painter and graphic artist . He was an important exponent of abstract art and printmaking after the Second World War .

life and work

Fritz Harnest began his studies at the age of 16. From 1921 to 1929 he studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich as a student of Carl Johann Becker-Gundahl , Ludwig von Herterich and Karl Caspar . He dealt intensively with color , especially from 1929 with Karl Caspar . From 1930 to 1931 he went on study trips to France, Normandy and Paris with his friend, the painter Otto Baumann .

Fritz Harnest around 1970 (photo by Joseph Harnest )

At the beginning of the National Socialist takeover, he withdrew. He visited Berlin in 1934 and met Emil Nolde there , who encouraged him to return to work. This was followed by a largely preserved correspondence with Nolde. Fritz Harnest had his first solo exhibition with chalk drawings in Berlin in 1934. From this time on he lived alternately in Hamburg, Berlin and Munich.

Fritz Harnest and Mutz Ellermann married in 1935 . She was a draftsman and later supported the family for many years. During this time, Fritz Harnest made some very colorful landscape and portrait paintings . In 1937 their son Joseph was born, one year later their son Ulf was born. After an unsuccessful attempt to settle in Hamburg, the family moved into an apartment in Übersee on Lake Chiemsee in 1938 . In the same year Fritz Harnest portrayed Emil Nolde's wife. From 1940 to 1945 Harnest worked as an interpreter in Moosburg . In 1946 he took part in the first post-war exhibitions of Bavarian Art of Today in Munich and Basel.

Harnest turned early to graphic work with woodcuts and abstraction . In 1952 the “ Bible woodcuts ” were created. During this time his pictures were exhibited in Switzerland, Italy, Holland, Austria, all parts of Germany and Ohio. 1959 began a friendship with Rupprecht Geiger . In 1959 he was a participant in documenta 2 in Kassel in the graphics department . In the same year he became a member of the New Munich Group through Werner Gilles . In the eighties, ceramic works were created in collaboration with Klaus Steindlmüller . In 1991 his wife died.

Prizes and awards

  • 1961: 2nd prize at the II. International Triennial for original color graphics , Grenchen , Switzerland
  • 1964: Water lily prize of the city of Munich for painting
  • 1969: Medal of Honor at the first Triennale Internazionale della Xilographia Contemporanea, Capri
  • 1988: Prize of the Rosenheim Art Association on the occasion of the annual exhibition
  • 1996: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
  • 1997: Culture Prize of the City of Rosenheim

Working in public space

Window in the stairwell of the Institute of Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University of Munich (photo by Joseph Harnest 1995)
"Harnest-Bampi wall ceramics in the staircase to the 1st floor in the Säckingen tax office"
"Harnest-Bampi wall ceramics in the casino of the Alb barracks in Stetten"

Portfolios

  • Fritz Harnest - eight colored woodcuts with a poem by Eugen Gomringer , Verlag Galerie Otto Stangl Munich 1959; Linen case (approx. 46.6 × 32.8 × 3.1 cm) with 8 signed multicolored hand-drawn woodcuts and 4 text sheets, edition of 25 numbered copies.

literature

  • Exhibition catalogs:
    • Bavarian contemporary art. Bavarian National Museum, New Collection, Munich / Basel, 1946.
    • Modern woodblock prints. Art Association Freiburg, 1955.
    • Max Burchartz / Fritz Harnest , Kunstverein Freiburg, 1955.
    • Fritz Harnest, adhesive pictures. Modern Gallery Otto Stangl , Munich, 1957.
    • documenta II . Volume 3: Prints. 1959, p. 35.
    • Fritz Harnest, houtsneden en collages, Stedelijk Museum , Amsterdam 1960.
    • II. International Triennial for Original Graphics. Grenchen 1961
    • Fritz Harnest / Ernst Weil , oil paintings, collages and drawings. Galerie Otto Stangl , Munich 1961.
    • International prints. Cincinnati Art Museum , Ohio 1962, No. 101.
    • Exhibition Fritz Harnest - 19 oil paintings and 5 collages. Municipal gallery in the Lenbachhaus , Munich, 1963.
    • German woodcut - from the early days to the present. Society of Friends of Young Art Baden-Baden , 1966, No. 259–261.
    • Homage to Franz Roh . Society of "Friends of Young Art" (Munich), exhibition at the Kunstverein München 1966, No. 39.
    • Art of graphics in and around Munich. State Graphic Collection Munich , Munich 1967.
    • La Triennale Internazionale della Xilographia Contemporanea. Castello dei Pio, Capri 1969.
    • Mostra Internationale della Xilografia Contemporane. Chalet delle Rose, Pontecchio Marconi (Bologna) 1971, no.56.
    • Mutz Harnest / Fritz Harnest, woodcuts, pictures, drawings. Art Association Munich, 1974.
    • Mutz and Fritz Harnest, drawings, pictures, woodcuts. Municipal Gallery Rosenheim, 1982.
    • Wolf Dieter Enkelmann : Geiger - Gruchot - Harnest - Marek , Gallery of Artists in the BBK Munich 1991, ISBN 3-926220-36-8 .
    • Fritz Harnest, late greetings. marquardt exhibitions, Munich 1995.
    • Fritz Harnest - Anton Hiller . ARTS Akzente, Kunstraum Klosterkirche Traunstein, 1998.
  • Lexicons and collections:
    • Harnest, Fritz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 6 , supplements H-Z . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1962, p. 22 .
    • Harnest, Fritz . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 69, de Gruyter, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-598-23036-3 , p. 369.
    • Juliane Roh : German art since 1960. Part III, prints, Munich 1974, p. 41, 194.
    • Supreme building authority Munich: image - building - work of art . Bruckmann, Munich 1990, pp. 160-161.
    • Maria Schüly : Richard Bampi , modern ceramist. Stuttgart 1993, pp. 190-191.
    • Ruth Negendanck : Chiemsee artist landscape. Fischerhude 2008, pp. 179-204.
    • Andrea R. Stoll: Homage to a gallery owner - Otto Stangl and his artist friends . Hatje Cantz, 2003, pp. 94-96.
  • Magazines:
    • Klaus Steindlmüller: Fritz Harnest . In: Neue Keramik No. 9, 1995, pp. 614-615, ISSN 0933-2367

Posthumous exhibitions (selection)

  • 2005: 100 years Fritz Harnest - 10 years State Building Department , State Building Department Rosenheim.
  • 2007: Fritz Harnest - From the sound of color , gallery in the old town hall, Prien.
  • 2019: Moments Musicaux - Fritz Harnest, a graphic artist of the modern age and music - piano evening with the sound magician Wolfgang Leibnitz , with an image projection by Willee Regensburger , Vereinshaus Traunstein.

Movie

  • Hans Stumpf, contemporary art - using the example of Fritz Harnest , marquardt exhibitions, Munich 1994.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ wall ceramics in the works: "Maria Schüly - Richard Bampi, ceramists of modernity", Stuttgart 1993, p 251 # 313..
  2. ↑ wall ceramics in the works: "Maria Schüly - Richard Bampi, ceramists of modernity", Stuttgart 1993, p 252 # 320..
  3. ↑ Occupied by copy number 6 in the Toledo Museum of Art Ohio (object number 1984.547)
  4. ^ Films on Fritz Harnest (1905-1999) No. 1 - The "Stangl-Mappe" from 1959 on YouTube , September 7, 2019, accessed on September 20, 2019.
  5. ↑ Opening of the exhibition: welcome by building director Matthias Ferwagner , speech by cultural advisor Klaus Jörg Schönmetzler
  6. ^ Fritz Harnest - Exhibition Directory
  7. ↑ Website: Gallery in the Old Town Hall, Prien
  8. ↑ Inspired connection. In: Traunsteiner Tagblatt on July 19, 2019
  9. ↑ Event program Chiemgauer Kulturtage, July 12th - 28th, 2019
  10. ^ Fritz Harnest, Late Greetings. marquardt exhibitions, Munich 1995, page 102 (film with excerpts from the opening speech by Hetum Gruber ).
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personal data
SURNAME Harnest, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1999
Place of death Traunstein