Fritz Rhein

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Fritz Rhein (born March 20, 1873 in Stettin , † June 30, 1948 in Freckenhorst ) was a German painter .

Life

He first studied at the Academy in Kassel and then moved to the Munich Academy . In 1899 he was awarded the Rome Prize of the Berlin Academy . Fritz Rhein was a member of the Berlin Secession and the Munich Secession and was one of the artists who split off from the Berlin Secession in 1914. In March 1914 those who left founded the Free Secession , which existed until 1924, with Max Liebermann as honorary president.

During the First World War he worked on the wartime , which, along with the follow-up sheet Der Bildermann, was one of the most important artist leaflets of the First World War. He was a landscape painter and portrait painter , including portraits of Adolf von Harnack in 1923 . He taught in Berlin , one of his students was Anna Dräger-Mühlenpfordt .

In the Nazi state Rhein was a respected artist. He was represented at the Great German Art Exhibitions in the Munich House of German Art with a total of 13 pictures, including a portrait of Field Marshal August von Mackensen . In 1943 he received the Goethe Medal for Art and Science . In the final phase of the Second World War , Adolf Hitler included him in the God-gifted list of the most important painters in August 1944 , which freed him from military service, including on the home front .

Fritz Rhein was a member of the German Association of Artists .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Figure .
  2. ^ A b Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 483.
  3. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903 / Rhein, Fritz ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 December 16, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
personal data
SURNAME Rhein, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1948
Place of death Freckenhorst