Fritz Keller (painter)

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Fritz Keller (born March 30, 1915 in Rothenbach near Glauchau ; † May 24, 1994 in Bad Berka ) was a German painter .

Life

Keller attended elementary school and from 1921 to 1929 completed an apprenticeship as a lithographer at the Oskar Werler Art Institute in Glauchau . From 1934 to 1935 he attended the applied arts college of W. Weingärtner in Zwickau. After performing the labor service in 1935, he studied at the State Academy for Graphic Arts and Book Industry in Leipzig from 1935 to 1938, a . a. with Walter Buhe , Arno Drescher , Walter Tiemann , Hellmuth Weissenborn and Julius Zeitler . After a study vacation in Hesse , another degree followed from 1941 to 1943 as a master student of Arno Drescher.

After serving in the war during World War II , Keller was a prisoner of war until 1948. From 1948 to 1951 and from 1976 he worked practically without a large public as a freelance artist in Lichtenstein / Sa. and in Glauchau and was also active as an art teacher in the school service from 1951 to 1976 . Keller is one of the artists of the " lost generation" .

From 1950 he was a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR .

Keller's works were exhibited in museum exhibitions, including in Chemnitz, Rostock, Glauchau and Zwickau. He also exhibited in galleries and art associations , for example in Dresden, Leipzig, Chemnitz, Bernburg and several times in Berlin, Erfurt, Wiesbaden, Münster and Heidelberg.

reception

“Apart from the earlier beginnings, some of which were influenced by post-Impressionism, ... from 1948 onwards it was based on the formal language of the French Fauves, due to Cubism , but primarily German classical Expressionism in the form of the“ Blauer Reiter ”and the Dresdener“ Brücke ” Plant."

Literature (selection)

  • Fritz Keller . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 6 , supplements H-Z . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1962, p. 135 .
  • Peter Arlt: The glow of colors in a paradisiacal world of images. Fritz Keller - painting (with reproductions of 90 graphics). Edition of the Hebecker Gallery, Weimar.
  • Fritz Keller: Fritz Keller - paintings and gouaches. Verlag Museum u. Kunstsammlung Schloss Hinterglauchau, 1985, pp. 8, 32, 42.
  • Sven-Wieland Staps: Keller, Fritz (1915) . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 80, de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-023185-4 , p. 20.
  • Keller, Fritz. In: Dietmar Eisold : Lexicon artists in the GDR. Neues Leben, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-355-01761-9 , pp. 425-426.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Fritz Keller , verschollene-generation.de, accessed on July 6, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Keller, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Rothenbach near Glauchau
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1994
Place of death Bad Berka