Fritz Wimmer

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Fritz Wimmer (* 27. January 1879 in Rochlitz (Sachsen); † 12. February 1960 in Neuburg am Inn ) was a German painter of Impressionism .

Life

Fritz Wimmer studied in 1896 at the private art school Ludwig Schmid-Reuttes in Munich and in May 1887 moved to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in the class of Karl Raupp . From 1898 to 1904 he studied with Paul Hoecker , Ludwig von Herterich and Franz von Stuck . In Dachau he met Ludwig Dill and Adolf Hölzel during a summer stay . In 1906 he followed the latter to the Stuttgart Art Academy , where he was a student in Adolf Hölzel's composing class until 1910. He then returned to Munich and settled in Schwabing as a freelance artist. In addition to landscapes in the late impressionist style, the focus of his work was on portraits of well-known personalities from the Munich art and literary scene (including Franziska Countess von Reventlow ) and figurative representations.

He was a member of the Munich Secession , the German Association of Artists (his name is still listed in the membership directory until the DKB was forced to dissolve in 1936) and the Dutch artists' association "Pictura". He continued his education on trips to Belgium, Holland and northern France as well as Italy; The travel impressions were reflected in paintings and watercolors. In 1944 his studio in Schwabing was destroyed in an air raid, with many of his pictures and sketches being burned. Thereupon he moved to Neuburg am Inn .

The acquaintance with Alfred Kubin , who had existed since 1930 and lived in Zwickledt on the opposite bank of the Austrian Inn, deepened into a close friendship that lasted until Kubin's death in 1959. Since 1949 he was a member of the "Bund Freischaffender Künstler" in Passau . In 1950 he had a solo exhibition in Regensburg, then four years later in Passau he participated in the exhibition of former members of the Munich Secession and the DKB. Works are u. a. in the Gemäldegalerie Dachau, in the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus Munich and in the Oberhaus-Museum Passau.

literature

  • Bruckmann's Lexicon of Munich Art: Munich Painters in the 19th and 20th centuries Century, Volume 6, Munich 1994, pp. 482-484
  • Ulrike Gärtner: Fritz Wimmer. Oeuvre directory of the estate. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Galerie von Abercron, Munich 1991
  • Wilfried Hartleb: Fritz Wimmer. Melnikow Collection, catalog for the exhibition in Neuburg Castle, ed. from the cultural department of the district of Passau, Passau 2010
  • Wimmer, Fritz , in: Hans Vollmer (Ed.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. Fifth volume (VZ) / supplements AG , EA Seemann, Leipzig 1999 (study edition). ISBN 3-363-00730-2 (p. 144)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Wimmer, Fritz ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on March 4, 2017)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  2. ^ Fritz Wimmer , in: Membership directory of the DKB in 1936 forbidden pictures , exhibition catalog for the 34th annual exhibition of the DKB in Bonn, Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin 1986. (p. 98/99)
  3. ↑ The regional gallery of Passau showed in the Kubin anniversary year 2009 from 25.9. until 1.11. a double exhibition Kubin / Wimmer: "Distance and Proximity: Homage to Alfred Kubin" at Neuburg Castle.
personal data
SURNAME Wimmer, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Rochlitz
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1960
Place of death Neuburg am Inn