Fritz Köhler (painter, 1887)

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Fritz Köhler (born June 28, 1887 in Moritzberg near Hildesheim , † February 12, 1972 in Düsseldorf ) was a German landscape and marine painter .

Life

Fritz Köhler, baptized Friedrich Köhler, was born in Moritzberg near Hildesheim in 1887. In 1892 his family moved to Hamburg , where the cholera epidemic had just broken out. The Köhler family was spared the epidemic. Köhler attended elementary school at the age of five. In his youth, Fritz Köhler traveled the oceans on merchant ships .

From 1905 to 1907 Fritz Köhler attended the School of Applied Arts in Hamburg and Altona. The then director of the Hamburger Kunsthalle , Alfred Lichtwark , recognized Köhler's talent and advised him to visit the university in Weimar. From 1909 to 1912 he studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule Weimar , until 1910 with Max Thedy (antique drawing and nude studies) and then as a master student with the landscape painter Theodor Hagen .

After studying in Weimar, Köhler set up a studio in Hamburg for a short time. From 1913 Fritz Köhler worked in Düsseldorf. During the Second World War , his apartment and studio in Düsseldorf-Oberkassel were destroyed and he evacuated to Berchtesgaden . In 1945 he returned to Düsseldorf. Köhler's last studio was in the artist house of the Association of Düsseldorf Artists on Sittarder Strasse 5 in Düsseldorf-Pempelfort . Köhler was a member of the Reich Association of Fine Artists of Germany as well as of the Düsseldorf artists' association Malkasten and was a co-founder of the "Künstlergruppe 1949".

Exhibitions (selection)

He took part regularly in the exhibitions of the art association for the Rhineland and Westphalia as well as in the great Düsseldorf art exhibitions .

  • 1908: Kunstverein Hamburg , group exhibition: Leo Diet, Karl Hartmann & Fritz Köhler
  • 1912: Grand Ducal Museum for Art and Applied Arts in Weimar: Christmas exhibition of Weimar artists
  • 1917: Great Berlin art exhibition in the Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf
  • 1922: Great Berlin art exhibition
  • 1932: Düsseldorf-Munich art exhibition
  • 1940: Spring exhibition at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
  • 1941: Large German art exhibition in the House of German Art in Munich
  • 1942: Large German art exhibition in the House of German Art in Munich
  • 1943: Large German art exhibition in the House of German Art in Munich
  • 1944: Large German art exhibition in the House of German Art in Munich
  • 1949: Exhibition of the Düsseldorf artist group 1949 in the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
  • 1967: Artists' Association Malkasten Düsseldorf
  • 1967: Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf: Fritz Köhler - Düsseldörfer Landscapes 1913–1936
  • 1982: District Museum Zons : Fitz Köhler 1887–1972, oil paintings and drawings
  • 2004: Museum Kaiserwerth: hiking club . With works by Walter Sauer, Hermann Schauten, Fritz Köhler, Leo Assenmacher and the sculptor Walter Schmieg
  • 2013: City Museum Ratingen

Awards

  • In 1967 Fritz Köhler received the Federal Cross of Merit for services to Düsseldorf and Rhenish art.
  • The Fritz-Köhler-Weg in Düsseldorf-Wittlaer was named after him.

Works

Pictures by Fritz Köhler can be found below. a. in the Nationalgalerie Berlin , in the Kunsthalle Hamburg , in the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf and in the state collections of Berlin, Danzig and Weimar.

literature

  • Koehler, Fritz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 78 .
  • Koehler, Fritz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 21 : Knip – Kruger . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 119 .
  • Richard E. Tristram (ed.): Fritz Köhler, Düsseldorf . (Includes, inter alia, an autobiography by Fitz Köhler). Düsseldorf, self-published around 1973
  • Dirk Kocks: Fritz Köhler: a versatile landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School . In: Weltkunst. Munich, 1985, vol. 55, no. 5, pp. 532-534
  • Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918. Volume 2: Haach – Murtfeldt. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7654-3010-2 , p. 259.
  • Hans. F. Schweers: Paintings in German museums: Catalog of the exhibited and depot-stored works , 3rd actual. and exp. Ed., Munich KG Saur 2002

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Köhler, Fritz, painter, Schanzenstr. 31, studio: Drakeplatz 4 , in the address book of the city of Düsseldorf, 1934
  2. ↑ Dirk Koks: Also a painter of the Lower Rhine. Fritz Köhler, namesake of a path in Wittlaer , r-abels-xxl.de/Wittlaer/ Geschichte &geschichte, from July 12, 2000, accessed on March 12, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Koehler, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Köhler, Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape and marine painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Moritzberg near Hildesheim
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1972
Place of death Dusseldorf