Fritz Kleinhempel

Fritz Kleinhempel (born August 1, 1860 in Leipzig , † 1912 in Dresden ) was a German designer .

Life

Fritz Kleinhempel studied at the Leipzig Art Academy , the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School in Weimar and the Royal School of Applied Arts in Dresden . Between 1900 and 1907 he ran a private school for arts and crafts in Dresden- Striesen with his siblings Erich and Gertrud Kleinhempel .

Fritz Kleinhempel created drafts for interior furnishings , designed posters and designed a. a. together with Max Pechstein glasses. From 1902 he created numerous designs for reform toys , partly together with his siblings, etc. a. for the workshops for German household of Theophil Müller in Striesen and for the toy publisher CF Drechsel in Grünhainichen . The creation of reform toys in Dresden from 1902 was based on the background of dissatisfaction with the quality of the then mass-produced industrially produced toys. The aim was to create toys that were simply designed, made of natural materials and stimulating the imagination. Fritz Kleinhempel designed icing figures for Jordan & Timaeus .

In 1911 Fritz Kleinhempel had an accident. He was cared for by his sister Gertrud in Bielefeld , who was then the head of the textile class at the Bielefeld School of Crafts and Applied Arts . In 1912 he moved back to Dresden, where he died soon afterwards.

The Kleinhempel siblings were among the most productive and versatile representatives in the field of reform art. Her work was featured regularly in the leading art magazines of the time.

Remarks

↑ The toy publisher CF Drechsel, founded in 1809, led a. a. Toys based on designs by the Kleinhempel siblings, folklorist Oskar Seyffert , carpenter Karl Schmidt-Hellerau and the Dresden architects Heinrich Tscharmann and Ernst Kühn are on offer.

literature

Urs Latus: Kleinhempel, Fritz . In: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden , Kunstgewerbemuseum (Hrsg.): Art Nouveau in Dresden. Departure into the modern age . Edition Minerva, 1999, p. 433 .
Cordula Bischoff, Igor Jenzen: The Kleinhempel siblings as reform artists . In: 100 years of Wendt & Kühn. Dresden Modernism from the Ore Mountains . Chemnitzer Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-944509-31-0 , p. 26 .
Kleinhempel, Fritz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 20 : Kaufmann – Knilling . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 459 .

Web links

Gertrud Kleinhempel (1875–1948). Professor and Designer. Internet portal Westphalian history. Retrieved January 6, 2016 .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Gertrud Kleinhempel (1875–1948). Professor and Designer. Internet portal Westphalian history. Retrieved January 6, 2016 (Thieme-Becker gives a different date of death for Fritz Kleinhempel as 1910).
↑ Urs Latus: Dresden reform toys . In: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden , Kunstgewerbemuseum (Hrsg.): Art Nouveau in Dresden. Departure into the modern age . Edition Minerva, 1999, p. 118-125 .
↑ Cordula Bischoff, Igor Jenzen: The Kleinhempel siblings as reform artists . In: 100 years of Wendt & Kühn. Dresden Modernism from the Ore Mountains . Chemnitzer Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-944509-31-0 , p. 26 .

personal data
SURNAME	Kleinhempel, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German designer
DATE OF BIRTH	August 1, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH	1912
Place of death	Dresden

[2] The toy publisher CF Drechsel, founded in 1809, led a. a. Toys based on designs by the Kleinhempel siblings, folklorist Oskar Seyffert , carpenter Karl Schmidt-Hellerau and the Dresden architects Heinrich Tscharmann and Ernst Kühn are on offer.

[westfaell-1] Gertrud Kleinhempel (1875–1948). Professor and Designer. Internet portal Westphalian history. Retrieved January 6, 2016 (Thieme-Becker gives a different date of death for Fritz Kleinhempel as 1910).

[3] Urs Latus: Dresden reform toys . In: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden , Kunstgewerbemuseum (Hrsg.): Art Nouveau in Dresden. Departure into the modern age . Edition Minerva, 1999, p. 118-125 .

[4] Cordula Bischoff, Igor Jenzen: The Kleinhempel siblings as reform artists . In: 100 years of Wendt & Kühn. Dresden Modernism from the Ore Mountains . Chemnitzer Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-944509-31-0 , p. 26 .