Fritz Kronenberg

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Fritz Kronenberg (born February 13, 1901 in Cologne , † April 4, 1960 in Hamburg ) was a German painter of the Hamburg Secession .

Life

Training and teaching

In his hometown of Cologne, Fritz Kronenberg first attended the arts and crafts school in Cologne from 1919. There he dealt with the technique of woodcut .

Between 1920 and 1923 he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and then, together with Karl Kluth, at the Karlsruhe Art Academy . He took courses in sculpture , wood carving and drawing .

After completing his studies, he began to travel extensively: In 1923 he traveled to the USA , Spain and North Africa , and in 1924 he visited Norway .

In 1925 he made a longer stay in Paris , where he met Wilhelm Uhde and the cubist works of Pablo Picasso , Juan Gris , Georges Braque and Helmuth Kolle . The artistic exploration of Georges Braque was to influence him so that his inspiration from the French Cubism later among friends the nickname Kronenbraque has introduced.

In 1925 Kronenberg returned to Cologne, married the industrialist daughter Erika Strauss (father: Ottmar Edwin Strauss ) and began teaching at the local arts and crafts school, which lasted until 1927.

Hamburg

In 1927 he moved to Hamburg with his wife to live as a freelance painter. With Erika Kronenberg's wealthy family in the background, the couple and their son, Stefan Kronenberg, were financially secure. In his first year in Hamburg he received an order from the city: a mural for the Volkshochschule Hamburg-Osterbrook . He used the port city's strategic location for long-distance maritime travel for a trip to East Asia - to India , Bali and Java and finally Egypt .

The following year, the Hamburg Secession invited him as a guest participant to the 8th Secession Exhibition. In 1932/33, until it was dissolved on May 16, 1933, he was a regular member of this progressive artists' association. His personal style, which formally modified Cubism so that the reference to the object was never completely cut off, often led to large-format, strictly tectonically structured still lifes . For the design of the landscapes, he himself stated: “ I can't do without a certain spatial and aerial perspective. “The landscapes created around 1930 clearly show the secession style that he developed together with other younger colleagues from the artists' association. In 1931 he joined the Hamburg Art Association .

After the transfer of power to the Nazi party in 1933, Fritz Kronenberg withdrew from the art business. In his private life he still teaches students such as Irma Weiland . In 1936 he started a collaboration with the Griffelkunst-Vereinigung Hamburg , whose original goal was to enable workers to acquire graphics. The pen art was able to relocate parts of its extensive graphic work despite many restrictions by the Reich Chamber of Culture . Kronenberg supported the educational goals of the association with lectures and guided tours. For a short time he also taught at Gerda Koppel's art school .

Ceramic wall in the Meßberg underground station
Remnants of the foundation of the deck for Fritz Kronenberg (center),
Ohlsdorf cemetery

During the 1937 propaganda campaign by the Nazis " Degenerate Art ", six pictures from the Museum of Art and Industry and the Hamburger Kunsthalle were confiscated. The Kronenberg painting “Still Life with Artichokes” has since been considered lost.

In 1938 he divorced his first wife. In 1940 he entered into a new marriage with Sigrid Vogler. They had a son, Nils Andreas Kronenberg (1941–2008). In a bombing raid in 1943, the apartment and studio were destroyed, and Kronenberg found refuge in Keelbek near Tarp in Schleswig-Holstein .

When the Hamburg Secession was re-established in 1946 after the Second World War , Kronenberg was there again - even if the re-establishment did not last long. In 1952 he was represented with two works in the representative exhibition of the Mannheim Kunsthalle Non- Objective Painting in Germany . In 1953 he became a member of the Free Academy of Arts in Hamburg. In the following years he again made trips to Denmark , South America and Brittany .

In the mid-1950s he had his own series on NDR television : Painting with Fritz Kronenberg , in which he explained various artistic techniques to the audience.

In the year before his death, Kronenberg created a ceramic wall for the Hamburg subway station “ Meßberg ” and in 1958 was awarded the Edwin Scharff Prize .

In 1960 Fritz Kronenberg died as a result of a head operation and was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery [grave site AC 10 (13-22)] in Hamburg. The sculptor Ulrich Beier , who is a close friend, designed the tomb at the special request of the deceased.

Fritz Kronenberg was a member of the German Association of Artists .

literature

  • Kronenberg, Fritz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 124 .
  • Heinz Spielmann (Ed.): The Hermann-Josef Bunte Collection. Painting around 1900. Special services of classical modernism. The Hamburg Secession. The new realism. Schleswig-Holstein State Museum, Cismar 1996.
  • Exhibition catalog Fritz Kronenberg for the 100th birthday. Oil paintings and watercolors , published by Hamburger Sparkasse, Hamburg 2001.
  • Friederike Weimar: The Hamburg Secession 1919–1933. History and dictionary of artists. Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 2003. ISBN 3-88132-258-2

Web links

Commons : Fritz Kronenberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Life data of Fritz Kronenburg ( Memento from September 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Catalog of the exhibition Non-Objective Painting in Germany , Kunsthalle Mannheim, undated [1952], cat. 26, 27.
  3. ^ Ohlsdorf Cemetery - List of Celebrities ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Retrieved January 1, 2009  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.friedhof-hamburg.de
  4. ↑ Grave image and coordinates at ohlsdorf.familien-nachforschung.de , accessed on October 18, 2018
  5. ↑ Ulrich Beier: Sculptor; Catalog raisonné with texts by Jens Christian Jensen, Wolf Schadendorf, Gerd-Wolfgang Essen, Ulrich Beier; Design: Annelise Beier, 1992, Hamburg, WV 17, p. 37.
  6. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903 / Kronenberg, Fritz ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on September 28, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de

Remarks

  1. ↑ At the specified location (October 2018) only the concrete foundations of the three parallel narrow slabs can be found on site (in arrangement and characters originally like the grave constellation Collande / Dahmen - see there)
personal data
SURNAME Kronenberg, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH April 4th 1960
Place of death Hamburg