Fritz Rupprecht Mathieu
Fritz Rupprecht Mathieu (born November 5, 1925 in Heinsberg ; † May 4, 2010 in Hösel ) was a German painter, sculptor and graphic artist.
Life
Fritz Rupprecht Mathieu was born as the son of the judge Adolf Mathieu (* September 1884 in Roden, † 10 May 1929 in Heinsberg) and Maja Mathieu (* 9 September 1895 in Bad Pyrmont, † 31 May 1992 in Oberstenfeld). The father had moved to Heinsberg as a judge in 1923. After his early death, the family moved to Bonn in 1937 , where they lived until 1960. From 1931 to 1935 Mathieu attended elementary school and until 1937 the grammar school in Heinsberg, then the Beethoven grammar school in Bonn . In 1943 he left high school and volunteered for the Navy in order to avoid the threat of being deployed to the front. In the summer semester of 1948, Mathieu matriculated at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf . There he began studying painting in the class of Heinrich Kamps , the then director of the academy. Mathieu financed his studies with various freelance assignments in art and graphics. In 1961 Mathieu moved to Ratingen-Hösel with his wife Ruth (née Hennecke, * August 4, 1926, † January 28, 2016) . From 1990 he devoted himself increasingly to his riding horses and lived in seclusion until his death.
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Mathieu dealt with abstract and figurative themes in his work, mastered the formal language of modernism of the 1950s and 1960s and at the same time had an extraordinary talent for the natural reproduction of people. He worked on Manet and Turner and created abstracted versions of their works. In 1951 Mathieu revised the logo of the German pharmacies to the form that is still current today.
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| SURNAME | Mathieu, Fritz Rupprecht |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, sculptor and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 5, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heinsberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 4, 2010 |
| Place of death | Hösel |