Fritz Skade

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Fritz Skade (actually Friedrich Skade ; born June 17, 1898 in Döhlen , † April 4, 1971 in Dresden ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Skade attended pre-school at the Dresden School of Applied Arts from 1912 to 1916 . In 1916 he was called up for military service. From 1918 to 1922 he continued his studies at the Applied Arts Academy under Paul Hermann and Paul Rößler , among others . After graduating from the arts and crafts academy, Skade moved to the Dresden art academy . From 1922 he was a master student with Richard Dreher .

Skade was a member of the artist group Die Schaffenden . In 1924 he took part in the jury-free art exhibition in Berlin. He became a member of the Dresden Secession in 1925/26 and joined the KPD in 1926 . In 1927 he received the Saxon State Prize for painting and in 1929 the one for wall painting. In 1930 he became a member of the ASSO and published illustrations in the workers' voice . He was also a member of the Free Art Association of Saxony and was part of the core of the Dresden Secession in 1932 . Two of his works were confiscated as " degenerate " in 1937 and shown in the Munich exhibition "Degenerate Art" . During the air raids on Dresden in 1945, his studio in the Polytechnic School on Antonsplatz was destroyed.

After the war, in 1947 he was a founding member of the artist group Das Ufer , initiated by Siegfried Donndorf . During this time he produced several works on given topics of the new political leadership, for example his picture Ernst Thälmann speaks on the cycling track in Dresden in 1951 about a commissioned campaign by the Saxon state government. In 1968 he received the Patriotic Order of Merit . Skade died in Dresden in 1971 and was buried in the Loschwitz cemetery .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1976: Bonn, portrait of the twenties. Portraits in Germany 1918–1933 , September 10 - October 24, 1976, Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn
  • 1980: Munich, Still Life and Landscape Pictures of the New Objectivity , February to April 1980, Galleria del Levante
  • 1980: Munich, Realism of the Twenties , October 14 - November 15, 1980, Galerie Hasenclever
  • 1987: Munich, watercolors and drawings from the twenties , March 1 - April 4, 1987, Galerie Hasenclever
  • 1987: Düsseldorf, Die Dresdner Künstlerzene 1913–1933 , October 3 - December 24, 1987, Galerie Remmert and Barth
  • 1991: Frankfurt, From Expressionism to Resistance. Art in Germany 1909–1936. The Marvin and Janet Fishman Collection , June 22 - August 18, 1991, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
  • 1991: Emden, From Expressionism to Resistance. Art in Germany 1909–1936. The Marvin and Janet Fishman Collection , August 25 - October 27, 1991, Kunsthalle in Emden
  • 2011/12: Dresden, New Objectivity in Dresden. Painting of the twenties from Dix ​​to Querner , October 1, 2011 - January 8, 2012, Kunsthalle im Lipsius-Bau

literature

  • Fritz Skade . In: Birgit Dalbajewa (ed.): New Objectivity in Dresden . Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2011, ISBN 978-3-942422-57-4 , p. 300-301 .
  • Karin Müller-Kelwing: The Dresden Secession 1932 - A group of artists in the field of tension between art and politics . Hildesheim (inter alia) 2010, also: Dissertation, TU Dresden 2008, ISBN 978-3-487-14397-2 , pp. 191-192, 379.
  • Monika Flacke (ed.): Commissioned art of the GDR. 1949-1990 . Klinkhardt & Biermann, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-7814-0380-7 , pp. 157 ff .
  • Art in Germany - The Marvin and Janet Fishman Collection Prestel, Munich 1991, ISBN 0-944110-02-9

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karin Müller-Kelwing: The Dresden Secession 1932 - An artist group in the field of tension between art and politics . Hildesheim (inter alia) 2010, also: Dissertation, TU Dresden 2008, ISBN 978-3-487-14397-2 , pp. 191–192.
  2. ↑ Peter Monteath (Ed.): Ernst Thälmann: Mensch und Mythos (=  German Monitor . Volume 52 ). Editions Rodopi, Amsterdam, Atlanta 2000, ISBN 90-420-1323-0 , pp. (150–) 151 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ↑ Neues Deutschland , June 21, 1968, p. 2
personal data
SURNAME Skade, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Skade, Friedrich (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Döhlen
DATE OF DEATH April 4th 1971
Place of death Dresden