Fritz Troeger

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Fritz Tröger (born May 19, 1894 in Dresden ; † April 5, 1978 ibid) was a German painter and graphic artist , member of the Dresden Secession in 1932 and the artist group Das Ufer .

Life

Grave of Fritz Tröger in the Dresden Heidefriedhof

Fritz Tröger was born in Dresden in 1894 as the son of Richard Tröger, a sergeant in the rank of warrant officer . Fritz Tröger suffered from a chronic ear disease and was very hard of hearing . From 1900 to 1905 he attended the community school and from 1905 to 1911 the municipal secondary school . From 1911 to 1915 he graduated from the technical school for the tailoring trade in Dresden and worked as a trainee in various tailoring companies.

From 1915 to 1918 Tröger studied at the State Academy for Applied Arts in Dresden with Margarete Junge and Paul Rößler . From 1918 to 1925 he studied at the Art Academy in Dresden , a. a. with Professors Max Feldbauer , Otto Hettner and Otto Gußmann . In 1919 and 1920 he was a costume advisor at the Meiningen Court and State Theater. In 1924 he went on a study trip to Italy .

From 1925 Tröger worked as a freelance painter in Dresden. In 1927 he went on a study trip to Spain and Portugal and from 1928 to 1930 was a teacher at Guido Richter's art school in Dresden. Tröger went on a study trip to Czechoslovakia and Austria in 1929 and a study trip to France in 1930 . From 1929 to 1935 he was also a teacher at the Army Craftsman School in Dresden.

Between 1929 and 1933 Tröger experimented with ceramic wall painting in the Meissen porcelain factory and made some wall pictures. Fritz Tröger was a member of the artist group Freie Künstlerschaft Sachsen around Peter August Böckstiegel , Conrad Felixmüller , Otto Griebel , Gustav Alfred Müller and Friedrich Skade . In 1932 Fritz Tröger became a member of the Dresden Secession 1932 . He had been a member of the NSDAP since 1933 , but was banned from exhibiting and selling from 1943 to 1945. Five of his works were confiscated.

From 1936 Tröger owned a country studio in Laske near Kamenz and, in his own words, found a “second home”. In 1947 he became a member of the artist group Das Ufer . From 1949 onwards there were regular study visits to the MTS ( machine-tractor station ) in Barnitz near Meißen and from 1951 work stays in the “ John Schehr ” lignite works in Laubusch near Hoyerswerda . There he headed the circle for artistic folk creation and had had a work contract since 1961.

In 1955 and 1961 he traveled to Paris . Tröger died in Dresden in 1978. His grave is in the local heather cemetery .

Awards

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1926: Dresden, large watercolor exhibition Dresden, May to the end of September, Brühlsche Terrasse, Sächsischer Kunstverein
  • 1933: Dresden, The Art of the People
  • 1934: Dresden, Saxon Watercolor Exhibition Dresden 1934
  • 1934: Dresden, Saxon Art Exhibition
  • 1936: Dresden, art exhibition Dresden 1936
  • 1940: Dresden, Dresden Artists Association. First exhibition in 1940, the year of the war
  • 1943: Dresden, art exhibition Gau Sachsen 1943
  • 1943: Dresden, Great Dresden Art Exhibition 1943
  • 1946: Dresden, General German Art Exhibition Dresden 1946 , Stadthalle Nordplatz
  • 1947: Dresden, first exhibition of Dresden artists. Department II , Clubhouse of the Kulturbund
  • 1948: Altenburg , Dresden artist , Lindenau Museum
  • 1948: Leipzig , Dresden artist , Museum of Fine Arts
  • 1948: Meißen , "Das Ufer" - Group of 1947 Dresden artists in the FDGB , Meißen City Museum
  • 1949: Dresden, "Das Ufer". Group of Dresden artists 1947 , Rudolf Richter art dealer
  • 1949: Dresden, 10 murals are created : Large power station Hirschfelde , together with Siegfried Donndorf and Willy Illmer
  • 1951: Dresden, “Das Ufer” , State Art Collections
  • 1953: Karl-Marx-Stadt , Central Saxon Art Exhibition , Schlossberg Museum
  • 1954: Dresden, first district exhibition of the Association of German Artists , Albertinum
  • 1955: Berlin , Contemporary German Graphics , Pergamon Museum
  • 1956: Dresden, In honor of the third party conference , Albertinum
  • 1956: Dresden, 750 years of Dresden , Albertinum
  • 1956: Freital , Dresden artist , Haus der Heimat. Local history and mining museum
  • 1956: Halle , German Landscape , Moritzburg Gallery
  • 1957: Dresden, Dresden district exhibition. In honor of the 40th anniversary of the October socialist revolution , Albertinum
  • 1963: Dresden, contemporary socialist art and proletarian revolutionary art of the 20th century , Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister
  • 1963: Dresden, art exhibition Kühl , together with Pol Cassel
  • 1970: Berlin, Risen from the Ruins , Altes Museum
  • 1971: Dresden, On Becoming the New Man , Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister
  • 1978: Berlin, revolution and realism. Revolutionary art in Germany 1917 to 1933 , National Museums in Berlin , National Gallery
  • 1979: Berlin, companion. Contemporaries. Fine arts from three decades , Altes Museum
  • 1980: Dresden, art on the move. Dresden 1918–1933 , Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister, Albertinum
  • 1981: Altenburg, Dresden graphics from the “bridge” to the present , State Lindenau Museum
  • 1981: Frankfurt / Oder , On the face of the working class in our visual arts , Galerie Junge Kunst
  • 1982: Dresden, Committed to Peace , Army Museum of the GDR
  • 1983: Burgk , prints of the GDR. Works by the old generation of artists , Neue Galerie Burgk
  • 1984: Dresden, “Das Ufer” , precious hall of the Dresden Castle
  • 1985: Dresden, graphics from Dresdner Werkstätten , Galerie Rähnitzgasse 8, Dresden
  • 1985: Dresden, painting from Dresden 1945–1985 , Galerie Rähnitzgasse 8, Dresden
  • 1988: Berlin, artist in class war , Museum of German History
  • 1988: Berlin, Art & Work , New Berlin Gallery in the Altes Museum
  • 1989: Dresden, Art Academy - Dresden. Paintings, graphics, sculptures by teachers and students in the 20th century , Galerie Rähnitzgasse 8, Dresden
  • 2011: Bautzen , Fritz Tröger. Paintings and works on paper , Museum Bautzen
  • 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 Troeger . In: Birgit Dalbajewa (ed.): New Objectivity in Dresden . Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2011, ISBN 978-3-942422-57-4 , p. 309-311 .
  • 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. 202–203, 380.
  • Martin Papenbrock , Gabriele Saure (Hrsg.): Art of the early 20th century in German exhibitions: Part 1. Exhibitions of German contemporary art in the Nazi era . Publishing house and database for the humanities, Weimar 2000, ISBN 3-89739-041-8 , doi : 10.1466 / 20061109.28 .
  • Martin Papenbrock, Gabriele Saure (Hrsg.): Art of the early 20th century in German exhibitions: Part 2. Antifascist artists in exhibitions of the Soviet Zone and the GDR . Publishing house and database for the humanities, Weimar 2000, ISBN 3-89739-040-X , doi : 10.1466 / 20061109.27 .
  • Tröger, Fritz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 472 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karin Müller-Kelwing: The Dresden Secession 1932 - An artist group in the field of tension between art and politics . Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-487-14397-2 , pp. 386 .
  2. ↑ Karin Müller-Kelwing: The Dresden Secession 1932 - An artist group in the field of tension between art and politics . Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-487-14397-2 , pp. 202-203 .
  3. ↑ Martin Papenbrock: "Degenerate Art", exile art, resistance art in West German exhibitions after 1945: a commented bibliography . Publishing house and database for the humanities, Weimar 1996, ISBN 3-932124-09-X , p. 539 , doi : 10.1466 / 20061106.93 .
  4. ^ Muralismus.ch: Illustration of the work by Siegfried Donndorf, Willy Illmer, Fritz Tröger during the mural campaign of 1949. Retrieved on November 26, 2015 .

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personal data
SURNAME Tröger, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH April 5th 1978
Place of death Dresden