Fritz Kohlstädt

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Friedrich Fritz Kohlstädt (born March 17, 1921 in Stuttgart , † July 1, 2000 in Pforzheim ) was a German painter . He lived and worked in Stuttgart and Sindelfingen .

Life

Fritz Kohlstädt was the son of the publisher Wilhelm Kohlstädt (1887–1955), who ran a humanities publishing house in Stuttgart together with Hermann Kurtz . On his return from captivity , Fritz Kohlstädt found the business premises and warehouse of his father's publishing house, which he was supposed to take over, had been destroyed by an air raid. Instead of rebuilding the company again, Kohlstädt decided on a different path of life.

Kohlstädt was an autodidact as a visual artist . From 1946 to 1948 he did an artistic training in drawing with the painter and urban graphic artist Walter Romberg and with Rudolf Müller in Stuttgart , but he only gained access to painting without any academic training. In his main occupation he worked for more than a decade as a draftsman and designer at Daimler-Benz , while at the same time he perfected his skills as an artist and acquired a variety of techniques: chalk drawing , oil painting , watercolor . In 1963 he took on a teaching position for textile design at the college for hand weaving in Sindelfingen. After all, he lived as a freelance artist and explored the landscapes that inspired him artistically on numerous trips: the rough coasts of Norway, Normandy and Brittany and their hinterland, more rarely the bright light of the south.

As a member of the Stuttgarter Künstlerbund , Kohlstädt and the painter Jakob Gross initiated the separation of a group of twelve artists from the Stuttgart organization in 1958 because of the unsatisfactory spatial situation in Stuttgart . In addition to Kohlstädt, Sepp Vees , Erich Glauer and Antal Lux belonged to this group of the so-called Sindelfingen Secession , which called itself “The Twelve” and existed until 1970 . Kohlstädt was a member of its board of directors for many years.

The city of Sindelfingen honored him in 1971 and 1981 with special exhibitions for his 50th and 60th birthday in the municipal gallery, as did the city of Leinfelden-Echterdingen in 1991 for his 70th birthday. In 1981 he received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon.

Fritz Kohlstädt lived in Wiernsheim-Serres in the Enzkreis and died on July 1, 2000 at the age of 79 in Pforzheim.

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Kohlstadt's painterly work does not date until 1947, but, according to his own understanding, is still part of Expressionism . The works of the Expressionists, which were accessible again after the war, appealed to the young Kohlstädt. Undisputed by all modern trends, he remained stuck with the style until the 1990s. In 45 years he has made over 1900 pieces. He later became a landscape expressionist, in the tradition of Lovis Corinth and Gabriele Münter . In his oil paintings he becomes more impulsive in the handling of form and color with advancing age, but he found his own expressiveness early on in abstractions that were taken to different extents, which is particularly evident in the frequently chosen subject of village perspectives, especially from France . At times he seems to be indebted to the untamed Fauvism of the early Maurice de Vlaminck , at times leaning towards the surreal expressionism of Edvard Munch . In addition to the wax chalk drawing , the watercolors occupy a lot of space in his work, which in terms of technology demands softer forms and muted colors and identifies him as a master of high standing. His watercolors interpret nature and its elemental forces - or also its silence - in the spirit of Emil Nolde . As a portraitist he was able to capture the personality in the picture like few of his contemporaries; a portrait of the conductor Sergiu Celibidache from 1976 is in the possession of the Süddeutscher Rundfunk , a similar one of the Prime Minister Hans Filbinger from 1978 in the family possession . One of his works is a portrait by the sculptor Fritz Nuss (1973).

Many of his works are in private hands, but also in public collections and galleries.

family

Fritz Kohlstädt had been married to Else Maria Kohlstädt (née Gold; died 1997) since November 3, 1945, whom he portrayed several times.

Exhibitions (selection)

Fritz Kohlstädt often exhibited in the Stuttgart area, as well as in other federal states and abroad.

  • Fine Arts Center, Canon City, Colorado, USA, 1962
  • Wilmersdorf Art Office, Berlin, 1964
  • Sindelfingen, Old Town Hall, 1967
  • Tübingen, Technical Town Hall, 1967
  • Sindelfingen, Städtische Galerie, retrospective on the 50th birthday, 1971
  • Iserlohn, Städtische Galerie im Parktheater, 1975
  • Aalen, City Hall, 1980
  • Sindelfingen, Städtische Galerie, 60th birthday retrospective, 1981
  • Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Städtische Galerie Filderhalle, 1984
  • Rastatt, Kunstverein, 1985
  • Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Städtische Galerie Filderhalle, on the occasion of his 70th birthday, 1991
  • Kunsthaus Bühler, Stuttgart, Fritz Kohlstädt, 2008 and 2017

Fritz Kohlstädt's pictures are in public collections in the cities of Sindelfingen, Böblingen and Stuttgart as well as in the Stuttgart regional council.

Literature / exhibition catalogs

  • Hermann Baumhauer: Painting as a creative examination of nature: Speech at the opening of the retrospective for Fritz Kohlstädt's 60th birthday. Sindelfingen yearbook. 23rd year, Sindelfingen 1981, pp. 256-259.
  • Fritz Kohlstädt / Dieterülle, Sindelfingen sketches, Bissinger Magstadt 1969
  • Andreas Bühler: Fritz Kohlstädt. Retrospective of the works 1947-1991
  • Fritz Kohlstädt, on the occasion of his 70th birthday, Druckhaus Münster, Kornwestheim 1991
  • Cultural Office of the City of Leinfelden-Echterdingen: Fritz Kohlstädt. On the occasion of his 70th birthday , 1991
  • Exhibition catalogs: paintings, watercolors, wax crayons, Düsseldorf, EP gallery 1970
    • Stuttgart, Kunsthaus Bühler 2008
    • Stuttgart, Kunsthaus Bühler 2017

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kohlstädt Fritz - detail page - LEO-BW. In: leo-bw.de. March 17, 1921, accessed April 18, 2020 .
  2. ^ Detailed curriculum vitae in: Fritz Kohlstädt, Retrospective of the works 1947 - 1991, 1991, p. 3
  3. ^ Kunsthaus Bühler, Kohlstädt Fritz. Retrieved October 7, 2028 .
  4. ↑ Gudrun Jansen, in: Fritz Kohlstädt on the occasion of his 70th birthday, 1991, p. 9.
  5. ^ Fritz Kohlstädt, retrospective of the works 1947–1991 .
  6. ^ Fritz Kohlstädt: Retrospective of the works 1947–1991. Verlag Fa.Drescher (Ed.), Rutesheim 1991, p. 217.
  7. ↑ Juergen Hiller: Sergiu Celibidache press report (with illustration of the portrait). In: hiller-musik.de. June 4, 1945, accessed April 18, 2020 .
  8. ^ Fritz Kohlstädt, retrospective of the works 1947-1991 . P. 11.
personal data
SURNAME Kohlstädt, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kohlstädt, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 2000
Place of death Pforzheim