Fritz Peretti
Fritz Peretti (born February 7, 1895 in Mülheim an der Ruhr , † December 11, 1978 in Düsseldorf ) was a German sculptor.
Life
As the son of a doctor, Fritz Peretti grew up in Mülheim an der Ruhr. The friendship with his classmates Otto Pankok and Werner Gilles encouraged him to earn a living with art. After he had passed his Abitur at the State Gymnasium in 1914 , Peretti first studied law at the University of Munich at the urging of his parents . On the side, he secretly attended a private sculpture school, then gave up his law studies completely and switched to the art academy in Weimar. From 1920 to 1923 he worked as a student of Walter Gropius at the newly founded Bauhaus . After earning his living as a freelance sculptor in Berlin and Frankfurt for a few years, he moved to Düsseldorf in 1930 and settled there in the Golzheim artists' settlement , where from 1937 to around 1972 he held Atelier 10 in the Atelierhaus on the Franz-Jürgens- Street 12 was inhabited. The city of Düsseldorf awarded him the Cornelius Prize in 1953 , and the Mülheim Art Museum dedicated several exhibitions to him between 1934 and 1965. He died in 1978 at the age of 83.
literature
- Mülheimer Stadtspiegel 1965, issue 4, p. 15.
- Mülheimer Stadtspiegel 1965, issue 3, p. 2.
- Mülheim Yearbook 2001, p. 60.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Peretti, Fritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 7, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mülheim an der Ruhr |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 11, 1978 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |