Fritz Hass (painter, 1902)
Fritz Hass (born April 12, 1902 in Munich ; † 1994 ibid) was a German painter . He was considered the last impressionist at the Munich school of painting.
Life
Fritz Hass was the son of the Munich painter and caricaturist Fritz Hass , from whom he received his first artistic training. From April 27, 1920 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . There he was a student of the academy professor Hermann Groeber .
Study trips took him to the Netherlands , England , France , Switzerland , Austria and Italy .
He then settled in Munich, where he moved into a large studio on Schraudolphstrasse, which was destroyed during the air raids on Munich .
After the Second World War he lived and worked in Landsberg am Lech and in Switzerland.
In 1970 he returned to Munich. He was artistically active until his death at the old age of 92.
Creating art
Fritz Hass initially made a name for himself as a portrait painter . Among other things, he made portraits of Prince and Princess Waldemar of Prussia and Albert Schweitzer . Landscape painting was later a focus of his artistic work. He preferred his motifs in the Bavarian , Swiss and Austrian mountains as well as in the area around the Chiemsee and the Dachauer Moos . In his late work he devoted himself to painting flowers.
His pictures are characterized by impressionistic lightness and a sensitive sense of color.
literature
- Leonhard Pelloth: Traditional painting. The eighties in Munich . Art Collection, Munich 1985, pp. 95f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Source: Matriculation Database Academy of Fine Arts Munich ; other sources incorrectly state 1898 as the year of birth.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hatred, Fritz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Haß, Fritz (different spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 12, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1994 |
| Place of death | Munich |