Fritz Klemm

This article deals with the painter Fritz Klemm. For the technology historian, see Friedrich Klemm .

Fritz Klemm (born August 14, 1902 in Mannheim ; † May 17, 1990 in Karlsruhe ) was a German painter . He taught as a professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe .

Life

Fritz Klemm studied after a teacher training between 1922 and 1925 at the Badische Landeskunstschule in Karlsruhe a. a. with Ernst Gustav Würtenberger and August Groh . In 1948 he returned to his place of training as a teacher and led a work class at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe. Five years later he was appointed professor and retired in 1970.

In the last two decades of his life, Klemm devoted himself exclusively to painting and collage. Fritz Klemm died on May 17, 1990, one year after his wife Antonia, Countess of Westphalen . She got to know Klemm at the Baden State Art School. The marriage resulted in four daughters and two sons. His second daughter, Barbara Klemm , brought her parents' artistic legacy to photography.

A student of his was u. a. the sculptor Franz Bernhard .

Artistically, Fritz Klemm went his very own way. After completing realistic work during his apprenticeship, he switched to gouache on paper at the end of the sixties . He became known for his sophisticated Caparol technology . Due to the thick application of paint and the grainy consistency of the Caparolfarbe, these pictures have the character of a wall or plaster. This gives them a rough plasticity. Klemm experimented with materials throughout his life, most of which came together in collages. Thematically, forest, wall and window representations run through his entire work. The human being moves back as a perceiving recipient and appears again schematically in self-portraits.

Awards and honors

• 1983: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1984: Max Lütze Medal from the Lütze Family Association
• 1987: Hans Thoma Prize of the State of Baden-Württemberg

Special exhibitions

• 1951: Participation in a group exhibition of the Free Darmstadt Artists' Association
• 1972/1973: First solo exhibition at the Edition Schneider gallery in Karlsruhe
• 1976: Ulmer Museum, Ulm, retrospective for the 74th birthday, with catalog and poster
• 1978: Exhibition at the Mannheim Art Association
• 1985: Exhibition at the Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe
• 1987: Factory show in Bernau
• 1989: Individual works exhibited at the trade fairs in Frankfurt and Cologne
• 1990–1993: retrospective on the artist's death (traveling exhibition: Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Staatliche Museen Kassel - Neue Galerie, Städtische Galerie)
• 1993: Gallery exhibition in Freiburg
• 2002–2004: Work exhibition on the 100th birthday of the artist (traveling exhibition: Mannheimer Kunsthalle, Kunstmuseum Wiesbaden, Lindenau Museum in Altenburg, EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg in Karlsruhe, Museum Goch)
• 2006: Exhibition in Albert Baumgarten's gallery
• 2007: Group exhibition Barbara Klemm Fritz Klemm in the Kupferstich-Kabinett Dresden
• 2007: Exhibition in the Dittmar Gallery in Berlin
• 2017/2018: Fritz Klemm. Painting and works on paper, then in the Leonhardi Museum , Dresden and in the Museum de Fundatie , Zwolle

literature

• Eva Studinger: Fritz Klemm. Life and work. Dissertation. University of Heidelberg 2000 ( abstract ).
• Barbara Klemm: Fritz Klemm. Photographs, paintings, drawings. Edited by the Kupferstich-Kabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, with contributions by Hans-Ulrich Lehmann, Heinrich Wefing and Ulrike Westphal. Deutsche Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2007.
• Johann-Karl Schmidt: Fritz Klemm. Exhibition catalog Ulmer Museum. Ulm 1976.

Web links

• Literature by and about Fritz Klemm in the catalog of the German National Library