Fritz Schnitzler (painter)

Friedrich "Fritz" Schnitzler (born February 11, 1851 in Tönisheide near Velbert , Elberfeld district , † 1920 ibid) was a German genre painter and illustrator from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Heralds of Spring , 1909

Following the example of Theodor Mintrop , Schnitzler only began studying painting at the advanced age of 34 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , after having worked as a blacksmith in his hometown of Tönisheide in the mountains for many years . From 1874 he passed the classes of Andreas Müller , Heinrich Lauenstein , Karl Müller and Peter Janssen the Elder at the Düsseldorf Academy . From 1883 to 1885 he was a master student of Wilhelm Sohn . Inspired by the genre painter Ludwig Knaus , he moved to the Willingshausen painters' colony for a while . He showed his mostly idyllic genre representations from peasant and petty bourgeois life at exhibitions in Berlin, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Munich and Vienna. In Düsseldorf Schnitzler belonged to the artists' association Malkasten .

Schnitzler, Fritz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936.

^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )

personal data
SURNAME	Schnitzler, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schnitzler, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German genre painter and illustrator from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH	February 11, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tönisheide near Velbert , Elberfeld district
DATE OF DEATH	1920
Place of death	Tönisheide near Velbert , Elberfeld district