Fritz Schönfelder

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Fritz Schönfelder (born October 10, 1943 in Chemnitz ; † June 7, 2020 ) was a German painter , graphic artist and object artist .

Career

After completing his apprenticeship and a few years of professional activity, he began studying as a youth educator and took the elective art. During his five years of work in this profession he deepened his artistic talent in the painting circle with the painter Sigrid Noack , which motivated him to study at the University of Industrial Design, Halle, Burg Giebichenstein , which he began in 1976 . He studied with Willi Neubert and Hannes H. Wagner . After dropping out of his studies in 1979, Fritz Schönfelder initially worked as a freelancer in Guben . From 1990 he worked again in his hometown Chemnitz.

In the 1980s, Fritz Schönfelder traveled to Czechoslovakia (Slovakia) and the Soviet Union (Russia, Georgia). He later found inspiration during annual stays in Spain. He also traveled to Italy (Florence), France (Paris) and Greece (Knossos), to Switzerland (Winterthur) and to Finland (Tampere).

Schönfelder was a member of the Chemnitzer Künstlerbund e. V. and in the Kunstverein Laterne eV

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His fields of work included panel painting and graphics (at the beginning of his artistic activity) collages, assemblages, objects and small sculptures. His work is inspired by Pop Art, Ready-made and Abstract Expressionism. The principle of the ornamental sequence of picture elements is striking. Works by Fritz Schönfelder can be found in museums and collections in Chemnitz, Cottbus, Fürstenwalde / Spree, Greifswald, Guben, Güstrow, Magdeburg, Roznava (Slovakia) and Senftenberg.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Schönfelder, Fritz , entry in the general online artist dictionary
  2. ^ Matthias Zwarg : Mourning a quiet art worker , in: Freie Presse , Chemnitzer Zeitung of June 11, 2020, p. 9.
  3. ↑ a b work database: Fritz Schönfelder , website of the BBK Landesverband Bildende Kunst Sachsen e. V. Retrieved May 18, 2018.
  4. ^ Fritz Schönfelder at the Chemnitzer Künstlerbund
  5. ^ Andreas Schüller: History of the Chemnitzer Kunstverein Laterne , website of the Laterne gallery
  6. ↑ Hans Brinkmann: Series: Fritz Schönfelder: The Load-bearing Capacity of the Surface , excerpt from the catalog text for the exhibition in the Galerie Laterne 2013/14, website of the Chemnitzer Künstlerbund. Retrieved May 18, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Schönfelder, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and object artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 2020