Fritz Martinz
Fritz Martinz (born May 29, 1924 in Bruck an der Mur , Styria , † November 15, 2002 in Vienna ) was an Austrian painter and graphic artist .
Life
From 1939 Martinz attended the Graz School of Applied Arts with Rudolf Szyszkowitz . From 1943 to 1945 he did military service and from 1945 he studied again at the Kunstgewerbeschule Graz, from 1947 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Albert Paris Gütersloh . In 1949 he became a member of the Vienna Secession . In 1950 he received the diploma of the Academy and the State Prize within the Academy of Vienna. From 1969 Martinz taught at the Vienna Art School. Martinz was a member of the Vienna Secession, in whose exhibitions he regularly participated.
plant
Martinz, along with the sculptor and graphic artist Alfred Hrdlicka , the painter Georg Eisler and the sculptor Rudolf Schwaiger, belonged to the post-war generation of Austrian artists who combined critical realism and an unadorned representation of the situation. Initially connected to Max Beckmann's panoptic world theater , he quickly found his own painterly expression, in which in his paintings, etchings and lithographs, above all, brilliant and, for the Viennese conditions of the time, depicted female nudes.
Exhibitions
- 1946 “Animals in War” cycle. New Gallery Vienna, Palais Attems, Graz
- 1960 Martinz - Hrdlicka. Vienna , Zedlitzhalle, Vienna
- 1962 Martinz - Hrdlicka . Künstlerhaus, French Hall, Vienna
- 1962 Austrian painting . Salon des Comparaisons, Paris
- 1966 Exhibition at the Michael Werner Gallery , Berlin (with Georg Baselitz)
- 1969 Austrian nude drawings from Klimt to today , Secession, Vienna
- 1986 art and work , joint exhibition of the GDR and Austria. New Berlin gallery in the old museum: Berlin, GDR and in Vienna
- 1992 Vienna Expressionist Tendencies since 1945 , Salford Museum and Artgallery, Manchester
- 1994 Austrian painting and sculpture from the 1950s , gallery, Belvedere, Vienna
literature
- Robert Waissenberger : Vienna and art in our century , Verlag Jugend und Volk, Vienna 1965
- Karl Diemer: "Figure - Viennese Naturalists". Verlag Jugend und Volk, Vienna 1969
- Johann Muschik: Fritz Martinz, a painter of dynamic physicality . Old and modern art, 15th year, No. 11, Vienna 1970
- R. Waissenberger: "Wiener Secession", a documentation. Verlag Jugend und Volk, Vienna, Munich
- Wieland Schmied: Painting after 1945 . Propylaea 1974
- Richard Hiepe: Fritz Martinz, the colossal painter , tendencies. Munich, 21st year 1980
- Feuerstein, Hutter, Köller, Mrasek: "Modern Art in Austria." Vienna, Hanover, Bern, 1965
- Karl Diemer: "Figur - Wiener Naturalisten" Verlag Jugend und Volk, Vienna 1969
Self-published:
- Martinz: Drawings 1944 - 1990 , 1990
- Martinz: Nibelungen cycle, drawings , 1991
Web links
- Literature by and about Fritz Martinz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Fritz Martinz website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kleine Zeitung - Fritz Martinz. Retrieved December 14, 2009 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Martinz, Fritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 29, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bruck an der Mur , Styria |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 15, 2002 |
| Place of death | Vienna |