Fritz Sauerstein
Fritz Otto Sauerstein (born April 3, 1893 in Brand-Erbisdorf , † June 12, 1968 in Augsburg ) was a German painter. From 1933 to 1945 he was professor for anatomical drawing at the Dresden Art Academy .
Life
Sauerstein studied at the arts and crafts school and then at the art academy with Georg Lührig . He took an active part in the First World War as a volunteer, from which he returned with several awards, but seriously injured. He had lost a foot. Since 1922 he lived as a freelance artist in Dresden. In 1932, the Ministry of the Interior of Saxony approved the appointment of Fritz Sauerstein as a teacher of anatomy to succeed Professor Dittrich, who retired at the end of the winter semester 1932/33, at the Art Academy, which was implemented the following year. Fritz Sauerstein received this position and the title of professor for anatomical drawing at the Dresden Art Academy in 1933. In 1934 he took part in a course in racial studies and racial care and was accepted into civil service in 1938. For scientific purposes he used at least three corpses from the city district of Dresden annually, mostly in the winter months, with reference to the Reichsgesetz and the ordinance No. 87 of October 8, 1912.
He lived in Dresden at Antonstrasse 2a.
In 1937 he took part with the oil painting Heiterwand, a landscape in Tyrol, at the National Socialist propaganda show “1. Great German Art Exhibition ”and traveled - connected with it - to the opening of the“ House of German Art ”in Munich .
After the outbreak of World War II, Sauerstein was appointed managing professor and, in 1941, vice-rector of the art academy. Because he was drafted into the Wehrmacht despite being injured in the war , he was no longer able to hold both positions at the art academy from 1942 onwards. At the end of the Second World War in 1945 he lost his post in Dresden. He moved to Bavaria, where he died in 1968 at the age of 75.
literature
- Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar , Volumes 11-12, 1976, p. 3671.
Web links
- Portrait of the painter Georg Siebert by Fritz Sauerstein in the German Historical Museum in Berlin.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dresden. From the Royal Art Academy to the College of Fine Arts (1764-1989), Verlag der Kunst, 1990, p. 656
- ↑ Gottfried Bammes: Act. The image of man in art and anatomy, 1992, page 259.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sauerstein, Fritz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sauerstein, Fritz Otto (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 3, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brand-Erbisdorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 12, 1968 |
| Place of death | augsburg |