Fritz Stattler

Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria , drawn by Fritz Stattler

Fritz Stattler (born January 15, 1867 in Pilsen ; † probably 1944) was an Austrian painter and draftsman who lived in Bavaria.

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Franz Stattler, son of a major in the Austro-Hungarian Army , came from Pilsen in Bohemia and learned painting from Carl Rudolf Huber and Christian Griepenkerl at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna . From 1892 he attended the Munich Art Academy and was a student of Gabriel von Hackl and Carl von Marr . Fritz Stattler stayed in Bavaria and was a member of the board of the Luitpold Group , founded in 1896 , a spin-off from the Munich artists' cooperative.

He painted in an impressionistic or post-impressionistic manner, especially flower still lifes and landscapes. Sometimes he also created portraits. A drawing by Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria was published as a large-format print during World War I and was widely distributed.

The exact date and place of death of the artist are unknown. So far it has been generally assumed that 1937 was the year his last known works came from. A painting “Birken am Ammersee bei Dießen” dated 1944 has recently appeared and it is now assumed that Stattler died at the end of the Second World War .

reception

The magazine Die Kunst wrote about him in 1906: "Portraits by Fritz Stattler reveal a tasteful veteran who stands on the solid ground of good Munich tradition and happily escaped the danger of getting caught in Lenbach's or FA von Kaulbach's tracks" . In the magazine Das Schöne Heim. Illustrated magazine for applied arts 1936 says: "Fritz Stattler painted with a lighter, brighter brush in the style of the Impressionists and achieved lively color tones, especially in his Munich cityscapes, the streets and squares around the Odeon and Isar."