Fritz Levedag

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Fritz Levedag (born May 15, 1899 in Münster , † October 28, 1951 in Ringenberg ) was a German visual artist and architect .

Life

Levedag was a soldier during the First World War . In 1922 he attended the crafts school in Stuttgart . After taking private drawing lessons in Munich , he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1924 to 1926 . From 1926 to 1929 he worked with Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky at the Bauhaus in Dessau . In 1929 he moved to Berlin with Walter Gropius , where he worked as a freelance painter. Further stations were Münster / W., Paris , Düsseldorf and Braunschweig . He was a soldier in World War II . At the end of the 1940s he found a free flowing conception of form. In 1951 he died of the long-term effects of hepatitis that had not healed during the war .

Since 1942 he had been with the economist Dr. Maria-Josepha Countess von Plettenberg (1910–2003) married.

literature

  • Erich Franz, Patrik Hirt (ed. On behalf of the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Association ): Fritz Levedag, 1899–1951. The years in Ringenberg. Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History, Münster 1999, ISBN 978-3-88789-132-9 .
  • Von der Heydt-Museum (Ed.): Between hail of bombs and economic miracle. Art between 1945 and 1955. Artist biographies. (Exhibition from September 7, 2008 to January 11, 2009)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In the booklet of the Von der Heydt Museum, the year of birth is 1889.
  2. ↑ Von der Heydt-Museum (ed.): Between bomb hail and economic miracle.
personal data
SURNAME Levedag, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1951
Place of death Ringenberg