Fritz Stuckenberg

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Fritz Stuckenberg (born August 16, 1881 in Munich , † May 18, 1944 in Füssen ) was an expressionist painter .

Fritz Stuckenberg, self-portrait (1915)

life and work

Friedrich Bernhard Stuckenberg was born on August 16, 1881 in Munich and came to Delmenhorst at the age of twelve , where his father took over the commercial management of Hansa-Linoleumwerke . His uncle was the painter Bernhard Wiegandt . After abandoning his architecture studies and after years at the academy in Weimar and Munich, he moved to Paris in 1907 , whose leading role as the cultural capital of the 19th and early 20th centuries attracted artists from all nations. Fritz Stuckenberg also found artistic inspiration and “the new” in Paris, the liberation to light and color. He belonged to the circle of the “ Café du Dôme ” and exhibited in the great Parisian “salons” and galleries. He received several appreciative mention in the press.

From 1912 in Berlin, he was discovered by Herwarth Walden in 1916 and integrated into the Sturm circle , where he maintained closer contacts, especially with Georg Muche , Arnold Topp , Walter Mehring and Mynona . Disappointed by the development, he broke the contract with Walden in 1919 and joined the art work council around Walter Gropius and Bruno Taut , and later the November group . Numerous “Sturm” exhibitions as well as participation in the “First International Dada Fair” , inclusion in the third Bauhaus portfolio and many other exhibitions in important galleries prove his position in the artistic scene of that time. Represented in important German and American collections, his work has been shown in Germany, the USA and Moscow as one of the groundbreaking representatives of the European avant-garde.

Forced by serious illness and economic hardship, Fritz Stuckenberg returned to Delmenhorst in 1921. Here, in the “dark Delmenhorst” (letter to the Flemish Dadaist Paul van Ostaijen ) under increasingly politically and personally oppressive conditions, he developed the constructive and spiritual late work. In 1927 he exhibited together with the artist group Der Fels in the Städtische Gemäldegalerie Bochum .

In the National Socialist "cleansing" campaigns , all of his pictures in museum holdings were removed or destroyed. In 1937 the work “Street with Houses” (1921) was shown in the “ Degenerate Art ” exhibition. In 1941 he moved to Füssen and died in 1944. Almost forgotten for fifty years, Stuckenberg was rediscovered in 1993 with a retrospective in Delmenhorst , Berlin and Neuss as part of the artistic avant-garde of modernism. His work is mainly collected and cared for in the Delmenhorst Municipal Gallery , two of his paintings (a portrait of Mary and "Christ walking across the lake" ), which were created in 1908, have been hanging again in the Delmenhorst City Church since 1997 , where they were part of until 1947 of the altar. A permanent exhibition of the “Masterpieces from the Stuckenberg Collection” opened on October 31, 2008 in Delmenhorst.

literature

  • Andrea Wandschneider / Barbara Alms (eds.): Fritz Stuckenberg 1881–1944 . Argon, Berlin 1993
  • Barbara Alms: Fritz Stuckenberg. Confidante of colors . (Catalog on the occasion of the opening of the “Stuckenberg Collection” museum in June 1998), Bremen: Hauschild 1998.
  • Barbara Alms: Fritz Stuckenberg (1881-1944) . In Hans-Joachim Manske , Birgit Neumann-Dietzsch (ed.): “Degenerate” - confiscated. Bremen artist under National Socialism. Bremen 2009, pp. 128-131.

Web links

Commons : Fritz Stuckenberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Late years: 1926/27 CV on the website of the Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst
  2. ↑ Little companion while walking through the Evangelical Lutheran Church. City Church of Delmenhorst "On the Holy Trinity"
personal data
SURNAME Stuckenberg, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German expressionist painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1944
Place of death Feet