Fritz Wrampe

Fritz Wrampe (born January 17, 1893 in Munich , † November 13, 1934 in Munich) was a German sculptor , draftsman and graphic artist . He is considered a renowned animal sculptor.

“Zebutier”, sketch for a sculpture, around 1924

Live and act

Fritz Wrampe was born to Protestant parents in Munich in 1893. His father was a merchant and came from a Baltic family, his mother came from Augsburg. In November 1914 he began training with the painter Adolf Hengeler at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . Later he also had lessons from Hugo von Habermann and Heinrich von Zügel . From 1917 to 1923 he was a member of Hermann Hahn's sculpting class at the academy . There were u. a. Toni Stadler and Ludwig Kasper his fellow students.

Wrampe was a member of the Munich New Secession from 1921 . Together with the sculptor Ludwig Kasper and the painter Florian Bosch (1900–1972), he had a studio in the former Schwanthaler Museum from 1923 to 1928 . From 1928 he worked as a guest in Heinrich Kirchner's studio . In 1931 he went on a study trip to Italy with him and the painter Max Schöfer (1895–1966) . This was made possible by an academy scholarship and led to Assisi, Verona, Perugia, Rome, Naples and Pompeii.

Fritz Wrampe suffered from nervous stomach problems and depression . Three times in his career (the one time after the death of his father) he felt compelled to destroy all available work and to give away his studio equipment. Only works that he sold early or that were created in his last time have survived. In 1934 he was shot by his lover. The sculptor Bernhard Bleeker gave his funeral speech.

Wrampe's artistic endeavors become clear in this quote: The natural form must be reduced and yet all of nature must remain in the sculpture. Some of his works were confiscated from the National Socialist regime by the Reich Propaganda Ministry as " degenerate art ", for example in August 1937 from the Munich State Gallery. Heinrich Kirchner, Wrampes' artist friend, left his widow to manage the entire artistic estate.

Fritz Wrampe left more than 1,100 drawings. Twelve of his prints are in the collection of Alfred Kubin in the Upper Austrian State Museum in Linz . Eleven of his lithographs can be found in Kubin-Haus Zwickledt : Christ's feet washing , tarpaulin wagon with horse , naked man with two horses , men with horses , lady in evening dress with two elephants , roe deer , panthers behind bars , in the zoo , baboons , horses and buffalo .

Works (selection)

• Antelope. Bronze , 49 x 59 x 30 cm. Bavarian State Painting Collections - Modern Art Collection in the Pinakothek der Moderne Munich .
• Equestrian. Bronze, 44 × 36.5 cm; 1933/1934. (Confiscated from the Städtischer Kunsthalle Mannheim in 1937 / in commission in the Karl Buchholz art dealer around 1939 , part of the Berlin sculpture find since 2011. )
• Standing zebu cattle.
• Girl act. Cement. Lost. (Confiscated from Bavarian State Painting Collections in 1937. )
• Waiting horse. Bronze, height 71 cm, 1933/1934. Lehmbruck Museum , Duisburg.
• Like horses in the water. Lithograph. (Bought by the Hamburger Kunsthalle from the annual exhibition of the German Association of Artists 1953. )
• Self-portrait. Pen, 300 × 197 mm. Graphic collection, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart .

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

• 1935/1936: Exhibition of the estate. Library building of the Deutsches Museum , Munich.
• 1959: Memorial exhibition on the 25th anniversary of death, Kunstverein Munich .
• 1993/1994: Fritz Wrampe. Drawings. State Graphic Collection Munich .

Group exhibitions

• 1927: Drawings and sculptures by Wrampe. Collective exhibition. Galerie Thannhauser , Munich.
• 1931: Hans Gött , Walter Schulz-Matan , Fritz Wrampe. Art Association, Munich.
• 1932: Düsseldorf-Munich art exhibition. Kunstpalast , Düsseldorf, May 14th to August 31st.
• (?) 1934/1935: Wrampes eating antelope. In: Munich Art. New Pinakothek Munich .
• 1936: Fritz Wrampe, Toni Stadler , Heinrich Kirchner , Ludwig Kasper , Fritz Griebel , Hubert Kapusta. Kunstverein in Hamburg , May 9th to June 7th.
• 1937: Wrampes rider. In: Young German Sculptors. Municipal art gallery Mannheim . (Loan from the estate.)
• 1939: Anton Hiller , Fritz Wrampe, Toni Stadler, Heinrich Kirchner, Gerhard Marcks . Günther Franke Gallery , Munich.
• 1947: New group. Municipal gallery in the Lenbachhaus , Munich.
• 1951: Wrampes Zeburind in: German sculpture of the present. Kestner Society , Hanover.
• 1953: Wrampe memorial exhibition within the third annual exhibition of the German Association of Artists , Kunsthalle am Glockengießerwall , Hamburg. (In a separate room four drawings and three sculptures, Asende Antilope , Lying Antelope and Blind .)
• 1979: The twenties in Munich. Munich City Museum .
• 2008/2009: Wrampes Standing Zebu Cattle . In: Gestalt - Form - Figure. Hans Wimmer and the Munich School of Sculpture. Oberhaus Museum , Passau / Ernst Barlach Foundation , Güstrow / Georg Kolbe Museum , Berlin.
• 2010–2013: Wrampes Rider. As part of the traveling exhibition Berlin Sculpture Finds .
• 2011: Giraffe , 1928. In: Giraffe, Pudel, Dromedar. Animal sculpture by German sculptors of the 20th century from the Karl H. Knauf collection, Berlin. Edwin Scharff Museum, Neu-Ulm.

Appreciation

• Hans Eckstein : "One of the most original talents was undoubtedly the late Fritz Wrampe, for whom it is difficult to say whether his drawings and lithographs or his sculptures are the more precious legacy."
• Waldemar Grzimek : “Wrampe [...] complements the differentiated head and figure modeling with grotesque animal compositions. In his Reclining Antilope, this timelessly beautiful sculpture, he finds lively relationships between surfaces and contrasts of forms, which herald the coming styles. "
• Ernst Holzinger : "The last pictures have become completely pure and perfect in their three-dimensional imagination and realization, and the last drawings have achieved true graphic mastery."

literature

Monographs

• Joachim Heusinger von Waldegg : The sculptor and draftsman Fritz Wrampe (1893-1934). A contribution to German sculpture in the 20th century. Dissertation with catalog raisonné. Hamburg 1971.
• Michael Semff (Ed.): Fritz Wrampe. Drawings. Catalog. With contributions by Tilman Falk, Ernst Holzinger, Florian Huber and Michael Semff. Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-927803-09-X .
• Markus von Gosen : Memory of Fritz Wrampe. In: Graphic Art. Issue 53 / 2nd issue 1999. Edition Curt Visel, Memmingen 1999.

Anthologies

• Fritz Nemitz (ed.): Young sculptors. Rembrandt, Berlin 1939. (= The People's Art Books. Vol. 3.)
• Fritz Wrampe. In: painter and sculptor in Munich. Kurt Desch , Munich 1946. pp. 25-27, 72.
• Franz Roh: "Degenerate" art. Art barbarism in the Third Reich. Torch bearer, Hannover 1962. pp. 226, 237.
• Waldemar Grzimek : German sculptor of the twentieth century. Life, schools, effects. Heinz Moos Verlagsgesellschaft, Munich 1969. pp. 75, 173, 174, 196–198, 314, 315.
• Hans Kiessling: Encounters with sculptors: Munich art scene 1955–1982. Documentation about 99 sculptors, with a foreword by Karl Ude . EOS, St. Ottilien 1982, ISBN 3-88096-183-2 . Pp. 604-609.
• Matthias Wemhoff (Ed.): The Berlin Sculpture Find. “Degenerate Art” in bomb rubble. Discovery - interpretation - perspective. Accompanying volume to the exhibition with the contributions from the Berlin Symposium. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7954-2628-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Fritz Wrampe in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by Fritz Wrampes in the picture index
• Auction Results for Fritz Wrampe on artnet
• Fritz Wrampe Free University of Berlin
• Biographical information on Fritz Wrampe on the Wellcome Library website , London. (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ In Ulm according to kunstaspekte.de , accessed on October 20, 2013.
2. ^ Imme Oldenburg: Animal sculpture in the 20th century. Heinz Theuerjahr (1913–1991). Dissertation. Passau 2000. S. 54. opus-bayern.de (PDF; 1.1 MB.)
3. ↑ ^{a b} Fritz Wrampe, 05453 in the register book 1884–1920. Retrieved from the matriculation database of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich on October 20, 2013.
4. ↑ Hans Kiessling: Encounters with sculptors: Munich art scene 1955–1982. Documentation about 99 sculptors, with a foreword by Karl Ude . EOS, St. Ottilien 1982, ISBN 3-88096-183-2 . P. 604.
5. ↑ ^{a b} List of the newly identified sculptures - For the exhibition “The Berlin Sculpture Fund. 'Degenerate Art' in the Bomb Rubble ”. Press release  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from March 18, 2012. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, accessed on October 21, 2013. p. 4 f. (PDF, 74 kB.)  
6. ↑ Nicole Mende: The Villa Romana - An artist's dream? The reopened Künstlerhaus from the perspective of the scholarship holders from 1959 to 1970. S. 3. villaromana.org (PDF; 4.5 MB.)
7. ↑ Hans Kiessling: Encounters with sculptors: Munich art scene 1955–1982. EOS, St. Ottilien 1982, ISBN 3-88096-183-2 . P. 604.
8. ↑ Hans Kiessling: Encounters with sculptors: Munich art scene 1955–1982. Documentation about 99 sculptors, with a foreword by Karl Ude . EOS, St. Ottilien 1982, ISBN 3-88096-183-2 . P. 604.
9. ^ Waldemar Grzimek: German sculptors of the twentieth century. Life, schools, effects. Heinz Moos Verlagsgesellschaft, Munich 1969. p. 196.
10. ^ ^{A b c} Claudia Emmert : "Signs of Life." Heinrich Kirchner - Sculptures. Exhibition guide. Städtische Galerie Erlangen , 2009. S. 3. staedtische-galerie-erlangen.de ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2013 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. (PDF; 489 kB.) 
11. ^ Frank Henseleit: The sculptor Bernhard Bleeker (1881–1968). Life and work. Dissertation. Augsburg 2005/2007. P. 30. opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de (PDF; 2.6 MB.)
12. ↑ Veronika Wiegartz (ed.): We are the last of the Mohicans: Gerhard Marcks and Hans Wimmer: Plastik from 1965–1985. Gerhard Marcks Foundation, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-924412-44-8 .
13. ^ Tilman Falk: Foreword. In: Michael Semff (Ed.): Fritz Wrampe. Drawings. Catalog. Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-927803-09-X . P. 7.
14. ^ Brigitte Heinzl: Alfred Kubin's graphic collection in the Upper Austrian State Museum. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. 115th volume. Linz 1970. S. 222. online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
15. ^ Brigitte Heinzl: The Kubinhaus in Zwickledt, its furnishings and collections. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. Vol. 136. Linz 1991. p. 293. online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
16. ↑ Fig. ( Memento from October 22, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) on bpk - Image Agency for Art, Culture and History (accessed on October 22, 2013).
17. ↑ Description in: List of the newly identified sculptures - For the exhibition “The Berlin Sculpture Fund. 'Degenerate Art' in the Bomb Rubble ”. Press release  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of March 18, 2012. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, accessed on October 21, 2013. P. 5. (PDF, 74 kB.)  
18. ↑ Press photos The Berlin Sculpture Find. “Degenerate Art” in Bomb Rubble - Identified Finds. Retrieved October 20, 2013 (PDF file, 377 kB.)
19. ↑ Annika Wind: "Degenerate Art" from the earth. At Morgenweb.de , accessed on October 20, 2013.
20. ↑ Figures passau-live.de ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , passau-live.de ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on passaulive - Die Stadt im Netz (accessed October 22, 2013).  
21. ↑ Inv.-No. 181/1936.
22. ↑ Myriam Untermaiser: The controversy over modernity in German Artist Union under the first Chairman Karl Hofer - an analysis of exhibitions from 1951 to 1955. Dissertation, Berlin 2007/2010. In Chapter 4. The analysis of the annual exhibitions from 1951 to 1955. S. 150. diss.fu-berlin.de (PDF; 568 kB.)
23. ↑ Thomas Döring: Views of the I: 100 selected sheets from the collection “Artists see themselves - graphic self-portraits of the 20th century” in the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum Braunschweig. 1997, p. 162.
24. ^ Waldemar Grzimek: German sculptors of the twentieth century. Life, schools, effects. Heinz Moos, Munich 1969. pp. 196, 198.
25. ↑ Michael Semff (Ed.): Fritz Wrampe. Drawings. Catalog. Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-927803-09-X .
26. ^ Waldemar Grzimek: German sculptors of the twentieth century. Life, schools, effects. Heinz Moos, Munich 1969. p. 196.
27. ^ Exhibition directory on the Hans Gött website, accessed on October 30, 2013.
28. ↑ According to participating artists of the Munich New Secession Munich. on Pitt Kreuzberg website, accessed October 21, 2013.
29. ↑ The art for everyone . No. 50 , 1935, pp. 174 ( arthistoricum.net ( memento of December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) [accessed November 26, 2013]). Die Kunst für Alle ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
30. ^ Selected exhibitions by Toni Stadler at Artnet , accessed on October 20, 2013.
31. ↑ Ruth Kissling: The beginnings of the new group. S. 2. neuegruppe-hausderkunst.de (PDF; 98 kB.)
32. ^ Carl Georg Heise: Sculpture in the Right Environment - To two exhibitions in Hanover. In: “ Die Zeit ” from May 30, 1951, accessed on October 21, 2013.
33. ↑ Myriam Untermaiser: The controversy over modernity in German Artist Union under the first Chairman Karl Hofer - an analysis of exhibitions from 1951 to 1955. Dissertation, Berlin 2007/2010. In it Chapter 4. The analysis of the annual exhibitions from 1951 to 1955. pp. 131, 150, 151. diss.fu-berlin.de (PDF; 568 kB.)
34. ↑ Christoph Stötzl (ed.): The Twenties in Munich. Catalog. Münchner Stadtmuseum, 1979. pp. 160, 520, 753.
35. ↑ Description of the exhibition ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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 October 20, 2013. 
36. ↑ Exhibition catalog Gestalt - Form - Figur. , Retrieved October 20, 2013.
37. ↑ Exhibition page ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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 October 20, 2013. 
38. ↑ In Schloss Gottorf not shown, according to the "Degenerate Art" in the bomb debris. Retrieved October 20, 2013.
39. ↑ Illustration on the flyer for the exhibition ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.8 MB), accessed on October 20, 2013. 
40. ↑ Hans Eckstein: For the introduction. In: painter and sculptor in Munich. Kurt Desch, Munich 1946.
41. ^ Waldemar Grzimek: German sculptors of the twentieth century. Life, schools, effects. Heinz Moos, Munich 1969. pp. 196, 198.
42. ^ Ernst Holzinger: Fritz Wrampe. In: Michael Semff (Ed.): Fritz Wrampe. Drawings. Catalog. Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-927803-09-X . P. 9.