Fritz Wolf (cartoonist)

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Fritz Wolf, bust by Werner Klenk

Fritz Wolf (born May 7, 1918 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ; † December 23, 2001 in Bad Rothenfelde ) was a German graphic artist and caricaturist . He worked for the daily newspaper Die Welt , was an employee of the illustrated magazine stern for 35 years and an employee of the women's magazine Brigitte for 25 years . Since 1952 he was the house cartoonist of the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung .

Career

He came from a Mülheim family with seven children. Fritz Wolf, the eldest son, did an apprenticeship as a chemigrapher after finishing school in 1934 . He practiced this profession until he was called up for military service. During this time Archilles Markowski, who later founded the Neue Tagespost in Osnabrück, which no longer exists , was his superior.

After the end of World War II, Wolf earned his living by painting lampshades. He volunteered in a graphics studio and studied commercial graphics at the Folkwang-Werkkunstschule in Essen in 1948 and 1949 .

In 1949 he moved with his wife Edith, née Meyerhoff, to Osnabrück ( Lower Saxony ), where he initially lived on Wittkopstrasse in the Sonnenhügel district . In Osnabrück he initially worked as a commercial artist and published his first caricatures in the Neue Tagespost . In 1952 he turned to political caricature and was hired by the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , to which he remained connected until his death. In addition, his work has been published in national and international publications, including Time and Tide (Great Britain). Wolf joined the SPD in 1969 . In 2001 he died after a serious illness in the spa town of Bad Rothenfelde in the Osnabrück district .

Osnabrück's then mayor, Hans-Jürgen Fip, paid tribute to Fritz Wolf, a staunch resident of Osnabrück by choice, as an outstanding representative of contemporary caricature, who always summed up his political and socially critical observations. Fip explained: “His thoughtful, satirical or even cheerful drawings sharpened the eye for the essentials and were appreciated by countless readers of renowned newspapers and magazines.” The artist took an active part in the cultural life of the city. The city of Osnabrück will cultivate his life's work and his artistic legacy and campaign for the appreciation of political caricature beyond its daily topicality. In the Osnabrück plateau, Wolf had always referred to himself ironically and cautiously as a "Manneke painter".

Awards

Honors

Fritz Wolf Monument · Fritz-Wolf-Platz · Fritz-Wolf-Passage

The city of Osnabrück honored the prominent caricaturist with the Fritz-Wolf-Monument, between Fritz-Wolf-Platz and Fritz-Wolf-Passage on Krahnstraße, near the Osnabrück town hall. The memorial was unveiled on May 12, 2003 and shows the bust of Wolf with a flat cap and scarf on a stone stele. A sheet of paper with a pen and an inkwell is depicted on the base of the monument. The memorial is the work of Werner Klenk (* 1942).

Fritz Wolf system

In honor of Fritz Wolf, who was an enthusiastic tennis player, the Fritz Wolf memorial tournament was held on August 23, 2003 in Osnabrück-Nahne and the TuS Nahne tennis facility in Fritz-Wolf in the presence of his widow Edith Wolf and the local mayor Erich Lauven - Plant renamed. Sports caricatures were exhibited in the clubhouse.

Fritz Wolf Vault

After Wolf's death, a vaulted room in Wolf's regular restaurant, the traditional Osnabrück restaurant Holling , was given the name "Fritz-Wolf-Gewölbe". Caricatures of Wolf are also used as wall decorations in other rooms in the Holling .

Works

  • Adenauer: My Life (1965)
  • The situation has never been so serious (1965)
  • I the Chancellor (1966)
  • Sauerland remains Sauerland (1966)
  • Do you love parties? (1967)
  • The Perfect Mixed Marriage (1968)
  • Pictures from the province (several volumes)
  • Receipt (several volumes)
  • Fritz Wolf (1978)
  • The little mouse and the elephant (1979)
  • Tours with Daughters (1981)
  • Grazing shots (1982)
  • Do you remember? (1987)
  • The one laughing with the wolf
  • Culinary Delights (2002)
  • Caricatures (several volumes)
  • I'm from Osnabrück (private print, 2004)

Fritz Wolf also published several books in the Low German language.

Fritz Wolf Society

On June 17, 2003, the Fritz Wolf Society was founded as a non-profit organization. The chairman is Marcus Wolf, the artist's nephew. The aim of the company is to preserve and publish the work of Fritz Wolf. On November 5, 2003, the exhibition Parties & Politicians in Berlin opened in the House of the German Parliamentary Society, the former palace of the President of the Reichstag behind the Reichstag. The company cooperates with the Fritz Wolf Foundation.

Exhibitions

The Fritz Wolf Society regularly organizes exhibitions of Fritz Wolf's works.

  • Culinary delights, Bistro Sophie Charlotte, Bad Iburg (December 1, 2003 to February 29, 2004)
  • The 50s, Galerie Clasing und Langer, Osnabrück (August 2 to August 24, 2003)
  • Parties & Politicians, Osnabrück University Library (spring 2004)
  • Contemporary history in the mirror of the caricature, Schinkel comprehensive school in Osnabrück (October 24 to November 10, 2004)
  • Contemporary history in the mirror of the caricature, Johannes-Kepler-Gymnasium in Ibbenbüren (June 14-21, 2004)
  • Selection of works, Kulturhaus Schafstall in Bad Essen (August 20 to October 17, 2004)
  • Selection of works, Hollager Hof in Wallenhorst , (November 11th to December 5th, 2004)
  • Selection of works, Museum Villa Stahmer in Georgsmarienhütte (January 30 to March 13, 2005)
  • Art passage in the Representation of the State of Lower Saxony to the European Union in Brussels (May 3 to July 25, 2005)
  • Europa, Stadthaus Osnabrück (December 6, 2005 to January 6, 2006)

In 2006/2007 exhibitions are planned in the Lower Saxony state parliament in Hanover, in 2008 in the Wilhelm Busch Museum in Hanover and at a later date in Wolf's birthplace in Mülheim an der Ruhr in the Museum Alte Post .

Fritz Wolf Foundation

The Fritz Wolf Foundation manages the majority of the original drawings by Fitz Wolf, whose work comprises more than 15,000 works. It archives his works, deals with the maintenance according to conservation criteria and records the drawings digitally. It supports young caricaturists through the Fritz Wolf Young Talent Prize for caricature and cartoon. The foundation has set itself the goal of turning the city of Osnabrück and the university into a center for the collection, research and publication of political caricatures and organizes events on the history, impact and development of political caricatures in Germany and Europe. Another goal is a permanent exhibition of Fritz Wolf's work. In the early years, the foundation used rooms at the University of Osnabrück , where it is registered as a university-related institution. The deposit is now housed in the state archive.

Fritz Wolf Young Talent Award

The Fritz Wolf Young Talent Award for caricaturists and cartoonists was awarded for the third time in 2005. It was awarded for the first time by the city of Osnabrück while Fritz Wolf was still alive in 2000, since his death in 2002 and 2005.

Award winners 2002:

  1. Anja Klauss (*) from Fischbach (Black Forest)
  2. Anna Zimmermann (* 1971) from Berlin
  3. Annika Langosch (* 1969) from Berlin

Award winners 2005:

  1. Marina Markevitch from Belarus
  2. Andreas Güde from Offenbach
  3. Jacek Lanckoronski from Poland

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Joachim Dierks: "Alte Gaststätte Holling" in Osnabrück is 222 years old - and under new management. In: noz.de. Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, June 11, 2020, accessed on June 11, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Hermann Queckenstedt: Groko in the government marriage bed. Fritz Wolf's caricature from 1969 is currently up to date. In: Online edition of the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, January 17, 2018, accessed on October 30, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Wolf, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic artist and caricaturist
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Mülheim an der Ruhr
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 2001
Place of death Bad Rothenfelde