Fritz Röhrs

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Fritz Röhrs (born October 20, 1896 in Hildesheim ; † February 14, 1959 ibid) was a German painter and artist who had devoted himself to the National Socialist ideology and who became known for his "Volkisch-Germanic" work, especially woodcuts .

Life

During the First World War , Röhrs fought as a soldier in France and Russia. He then studied at the arts and crafts school in Braunschweig , where he graduated as a book and commercial graphic artist in 1922 .

He primarily made idealized woodcuts of workers and peasants, who were portrayed as "heroes of German nationality ". In the city museum of Damme , his picture “The Hauerschein” from this creative period hangs, uncommented, which shows an angular miner who corresponds to the National Socialist idea of ​​the master man . Other museums, such as the Bomann Museum in Celle , which bought “Hannibal's grave”, or museums in Osnabrück, no longer showed the works after the Second World War.

In 1937, Röhrs applied for the post of graphic director at the Hildesheim Master School, the predecessor of today's technical college. Until then he had lived, among other things, as a freelance artist in Braunschweig. From then on he devoted himself primarily to woodcuts with Althildesheim motifs and idealized images of landscapes and cities in line with the National Socialist worldview. He is considered an example of how relatively unknown regional artists spread the National Socialist understanding of culture.

Röhrs lived in his native Hildesheim until his death. In the early 1950s, in addition to teaching, he shifted his artistic focus to watercolors.

literature

  • City archive Hildesheim: Hildesheim yearbook for city and monastery Hildesheim . Vol. 70/71 (1998/99), Bernward Verlag, Hildesheim 2000, p. 300 f.
  • Joachim Raffert: Fritz Röhrs - a master from Hildesheim. Lax Verlag, Hildesheim 1996. ISBN 3-82690-600-4 .
  • Braunschweig Municipal Museum and University of Fine Arts (ed.): German Art 1933–1945 in Braunschweig. Art under National Socialism. Catalog of the exhibition from April 16, 2000 to July 2, 2000, Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 2000, ISBN 3-487-10914-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrike Knöfel: NS-KUNST: Mief from the poison cabinet . In: Der Spiegel . No. 17 , 2000 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Joachim Raffert: Fritz Röhrs - a master from Hildesheim. Hildesheim 1996, pp. 87-89.
personal data
SURNAME Röhrs, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Hildesheim
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1959
Place of death Hildesheim