Fritz Tennigkeit

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Fritz Tennigkeit (born May 29, 1892 in Berlin ; † October 21, 1949 ) was a German musician and painter.

The painter Fritz Tennigkeit.jpg

Life

Fritz Tennigkeit married Vally Möckel in 1922, the older daughter of the Berlin violin maker Otto Möckel . Fritz Tennigkeit had a dual talent as a painter and as a musician.

Fritz Tennigkeit as a musician

As a musician he played the viola, and in addition to occasional participation in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra , he was a member of the Edwin Fischer Chamber Orchestra . With the consolidation of the National Socialist rule, however, he increasingly withdrew from the concert business.

Fritz Tennigkeit as a painter

Fritz Tennigkeit: Otto Möckel in his workshop , oil on canvas, 1935

Tennigkeit was trained as a lithographer from 1909 to 1913 . After the First World War he began studying painting with Lovis Corinth and Hans Baluschek . The painter, who worked as a freelance artist, stayed in Berlin and exhibited at the Prussian Academy of Arts , the Berlin Secession and at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition . He also had numerous solo, studio and collective exhibitions in the 1920s and 1930s, a. a. in the Parthenon on Kurfürstendamm and in the Gurlitt gallery in Berlin . Tennigkeit's portrait of his father-in-law Otto Möckel is now in the possession of the Musikinstrumenten-Museum Berlin . The focus of his work is represented by landscapes as watercolors and oil paintings. In the first place are motifs from the immediate vicinity of Berlin and the Mark Brandenburg.

Image selection: oil paintings, watercolors, drawings

  • Shed in the snow, 1919, oil on cardboard, 43 × 30 cm

  • Am Werbellinsee, 1922, watercolor, 44 × 36 cm

  • Schwanenwerder, 1922, watercolor, 34 × 25.5 cm

  • An der Havel, 1931, oil on canvas, 65 × 50 cm

  • View of Werder / Havel, undated, oil on canvas, 130 × 76 cm

  • Portrait sketches by the pianist Edwin Fischer , 1939

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Partly cited from the exhibition catalog Bilder märkischer Landschaft, 1962, Galerie Obpacher Berlin-Charlottenburg
personal data
SURNAME Tennigkeit, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician and painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1949