Fritz Osswald

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Fritz Osswald (1913)

Fritz Osswald , actually Friedrich Osswald (born June 23, 1878 in Zurich ; † August 24, 1966 in Starnberg ), was a Swiss painter of German impressionism in the 20th century.

Life

The Swiss citizen Fritz Osswald, son of the sculptor Albert Osswald, spent his childhood and primary school in Zurich and Winterthur. He first attended the Zurich School and the School of Applied Arts in Munich and studied in the years 1898 to 1906 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich as a student of Wilhelm von Diez and Nicholas Gysi . From 1904 he was a member of the Munich Secession and exhibited his pictures in the Glaspalast . In 1907 and 1908 he stayed in Italy with his wife Elsbeth, née Leopold. In 1908 his daughter Agnes Hildegard, called: Hilla, was born.

The artist often traveled between Italy, Austria, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, and after an exhibition of his works in the Kunsthalle Darmstadt in 1913, he was appointed to the Darmstadt artists' colony for the fields of painting and flat art. He lived with his wife and daughter and the painter Hanns Pellar on the Olbrichweg 16 property in Darmstadt (the building was destroyed in the air raids on September 11, 1944). The fourth exhibition of the Darmstadt artists' colony in 1914 he paid on behalf of the company directors Alfred Feist-Belmont (1883 to 1945) the sparkling Hall of company Feist with decorative murals and showed landscapes and portraits .

When the First World War broke out in 1914, Osswald was called up for Swiss military service, but was given leave of absence during the war and was able to return to the artists' colony in Darmstadt.

For his landscapes he traveled around Darmstadt and the Bergstrasse. During these years he also painted pictures of industrial plants in the Rhineland and still lifes with flowers . The literature included not only the visual arts to his great passions - by a resident bookstore he got while working in Darmstadt new releases of the then applicable as progressive writers and became deeply involved with the contemporary art magazines apart.

In 1918 Fritz Osswald returned to Switzerland and opened a studio in Horgen on Lake Zurich . In 1922 he went back to Starnberg near Munich, where he lived until his death in 1966.

Osswald was a member of the Reich Association of German Artists . His early fame is expressed in his commitment to the later much more successful Franz Marc , in order to achieve in the spring of 1909 that the two influential art dealers Justin Thannhauser and Franz Josef Brakl bought some of Marc's works and Brakl gave him one in his art dealership for the coming spring Exhibition of his works promised.

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The landscape painter Fritz Osswald found his motifs in everyday life and while traveling. After his time in Darmstadt from 1918, he devoted himself almost exclusively to alpine scenes or was inspired by the moods of the Alpine foothills . He developed his passion for winter nature early on: "discovering the feeling, the feeling of snow". In fact, "the viewer of the pictures suddenly feels all alone exposed to the infinite nature, which lies so quiet and cold and at the same time appears so lively and powerful". Osswald "brings strictly naturalistic landscapes, among which the snow pictures in particular stand out with their fine mood ... each of which is pleasing in the painting of the loose snow cover with delightful blue shadows or golden winter sunshine, in a cold, clear or dim winter mood."

The following works by Fritz Osswald are known (in alphabetical order):

  • Nude and man float away
  • Alpine glacier
  • At the Albula Pass (Engadin)
  • At the Staffelsee , 1913
  • Birch trees
  • Birches by the water
  • Birch trees in the snow , 1912
  • View from the Schneefernerhaus on the Zugspitze
  • View from Braunwald towards the house floor
  • View from Braunwald towards Tödi
  • Eiger
  • Engadine in winter
  • Field flowers
  • Thimble and peonies
  • lilac
  • Forester's house
  • House in Darmstadt , 1913
  • Last snow , 1910
  • Loisach Valley
  • Madonna del Sasso
  • Maria Gern (near Berchtesgaden)
  • Matterhorn from Riffelsee
  • Morning mood at Lake Starnberg
  • Munich train station
  • Murnau
  • Fresh snow
  • Upper Bavarian winter landscape
  • Pagoda Castle
  • Pause at harvest
  • Pic Enneigee
  • Piz Bernina in winter, 1917
  • Wiesenbach
  • winter
  • Winter at Lake Starnberg
  • Winter in the high mountains
  • Winter in the Karwendel Mountains
  • Winter landscape
  • Winter landscape near Tarasp (Graubünden)
  • Winter landscape with birch trees
  • Snowy winter street scene
  • Winter avenue
  • Wintry river landscape with birch trees
  • Winter moorland in early spring
  • Winter day at Lake Starnberg
  • Winter day near Mittenwald
  • Zugspitze
  • Zugspitze and Alpspitze from the Kranzberg

Solo and collective exhibitions

  • 1904: Munich, Munich Secession
  • 1905: Zurich, Künstlerhaus
  • 1906: Munich, Glaspalast
  • 1906: Zurich, Swiss National Art Exhibition
  • 1909. Le Locle / Switzerland, Société Suisse des Beaux Arts
  • 1910: Leipzig, first annual exhibition
  • 1910, 1929, 1936: Munich, Galerie Heinemann
  • 1922: Munich, Brakl and Thannhauser Galleries
  • 1936: Munich, Stadtgalerie
  • 1952, 1954, 1956: Munich - House of Art
  • 1977: Darmstadt, State Museum / Mathildenhöhe
  • 1979: Fürstenfeldbruck, monastery gallery
  • 2006: Starnberg, Kreissparkasse and Stadtgalerie
  • December 17, 2013 to January 31, 2014: L'école des Italiens - Museo Immaginario in Domodossola
  • May 29th to October 2nd, 2016 exhibitions Il senso della neve ( The sense of snow ) and La Galleria Heinemann presenta Fritz Osswald in Domodossola in the Casa de Rodis .
  • 1st July to 1st October 2017 exhibition Il senso della neve ( The sense of snow ) in Cles in the Palazzo Assessorile .

literature

  • Wilhelm Michel: painter Fritz Osswald. In: German art and decoration: illustrated monthly books for modern painting, sculpture, architecture, home art, etc. artistic women-work, issue 24/1909, page 190 ff. digitized
  • Georg Biermann: "A Munich painter". In: Velhagen & Klasings monthly books, 1909
  • Hermann Uhde-Bernays: "Fritz Osswald - Munich". In: German art and decoration: illustrated monthly books for modern painting, sculpture, architecture, home art, etc. artistic women's work, issue 32/1913, pages 86–94 digitized
  • Fürstenfeldbruck monastery gallery. Vernissage. October 21, 1978. Painting sales exhibition. Paul Thiem, Fritz Osswald, Starnberg painter, Munich School, French Impressionists from October 21, 1978 - Pentecost 1979. Fürstenfeldbruck 1978, page 20.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Osswald, matriculation book 1884–1920 , accessed on October 15, 2016.
  2. ^ Auction house Michael Zeller, artist index , accessed on October 13, 2016.
  3. ↑ Falk Buch- und Grafik-Antiquariat , accessed on October 13, 2016.
  4. ^ Museum Giersch, press release: Information on the painting House in Darmstadt by Fritz Osswald wanted. September 14, 2016.
  5. ^ Short biography Fritz Osswald , on the website of the Mathildenhöhe Institute in Darmstadt, accessed on October 13, 2016.
  6. ^ Franz Marc - Eine Biographie , zeno.org, accessed on October 15, 2016.
  7. ^ Program for the exhibition Il senso della neve accessed on October 15, 2016.
  8. ↑ Die Kunst - monthly books for free and applied arts , 21st volume, printed by F. Bruckmann, Munich 1910, page 235.
  9. ↑ Osswald, Fritz at Artnet , accessed on October 16, 2016. (Other sources too)
  10. ↑ Exhibition catalog , accessed on November 7, 2016
  11. ^ Catalog of the Museo Immaginario - L'École des Italiens - Collezione Poscio , accessed on November 7, 2016
  12. ↑ Exhibition catalog with exhibits & descriptions , accessed on November 7, 2016
  13. ↑ Exhibition website ( Memento of the original from October 16, 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 October 16, 2016. (Italian; illustr.)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.collezioneposcio.it
  14. ^ Report on the exhibition with interviews , Radiotelevisione Svizzera , August 14, 2016, accessed on October 16, 2016.
  15. ↑ Exhibition website , (Italian)
personal data
SURNAME Osswald, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Osswald, Friedrich (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1966
Place of death Starnberg