Fritz Lange (painter)
Fritz Lange (born June 24, 1851 in Düsseldorf ; † September 1, 1922 there ) was a German painter from the Düsseldorf School .
life and work
The son of the Düsseldorf landscape painter Gustav Lange , himself a student of Johann Wilhelm Schirmer and Andreas Achenbach , was initially instructed by his father and then studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from April 1865 to July 1867 in the preparatory classes of Andreas Müller and Heinrich Lauenstein . He created relatively few independent landscape compositions, but continued - comparable to the work of Carl Jutz the Elder, who was also active in Düsseldorf . Ä. - carefully studied and often scenic representations of poultry in surrounding landscapes or in interiors. Like Jutz, he often gave his pictures descriptive titles, which he adopted from character scenes by his famous colleagues in genre painting , for example in “A Curious Story”, exhibited at the Academic Art Exhibition, Berlin 1878, or in “A strange event” with a family of ducks , exhibited in the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen in Düsseldorf in 1882. Lange sent his works primarily to exhibitions in Düsseldorf and Berlin. Here they were valued for their graceful landscapes and the duck and chicken scenery used in “shimmering colors”, which appeared “not painted in”, but rather developed an intimate connection with their surroundings. Public collections acquired his work during the artist's lifetime, including the Altenburg Museum of the “Chicken Family”, the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Görlitz a “Winter Landscape” and the Municipal Gallery in Düsseldorf a “Landscape with Poultry” (1913).
Archival material
- Personal résumé (in a letter to Wilhelm Herchenbach ), 1888: Künstlerverein Malkasten , Düsseldorf
literature
- Kunstchronik 9 (1875), p. 743; 10 (1876), p. 556; 11 (1877), pp. 163, 227; 18 (1884), p. 368.
- Lange, Fritz. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1/2, sheets 31–61: Heideck – Mayer, Louis. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1895, p. 804 ( archive.org ).
- Lange, Fritz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 22 : Krügner – Leitch . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1928, p. 328 .
- Dictionnaire Critique et Documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays . Volume 6, Paris 1976.
- Sabine Schroyen (arrangement): Sources on the history of the artists' association Malkasten. A center of bourgeois art and culture in Düsseldorf since 1848. Cologne 1992.
- Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918. Volume 2: Haach – Murtfeldt. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7654-3010-2 , pp. 301-302 (fig.).
Web links
- Fritz Lange at Van Ham
- Fritz Lange on artnet
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lange, Fritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 24, 1851 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 1, 1922 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |