Fritz Wurmdobler

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Fritz Wurmdobler (born March 22, 1915 in Regensburg ; † November 16, 2008 near Regensburg) was a German painter.

Life

After elementary and secondary school in Regensburg he did an apprenticeship as a commercial artist. From 1936 he studied stage design with Emil Preetorius at the Munich Art Academy . The Second World War, compulsory, labor and military service and the ensuing imprisonment interrupted Wurmdobler's artistic career. After 1945 there was a new start as a freelance artist with a focus on art in building. In various techniques ( fresco , sgraffito , mosaic , drafts for glass paintings, models for copper, bronze and stone sculptures), works are mainly created in Upper Palatinate , Lower Bavaria , Upper Bavaria , Franconia , Hesse , Austria and Hawaii . Wurmdobler designed 85 schools, 7 churches, 12 kindergartens, cemeteries and numerous other public buildings artistically. Wurmdobler was a member of the Professional Association of Visual Artists Niederbayern-Oberpfalz, the Art and Trade Association of Regensburg and the “kgl. Bavarian privileged artists' cooperative 1865 Munich ”.

In the 1950s and 1960s, Wurmdobler lived abroad for a long time, mainly in the Mediterranean region, where he earned his living as a tourist guide and where his extensive artistic oeuvre was created: portraits, still lifes, landscapes. From 1970 to 1982 Wurmdobler was a guest lecturer for architectural drawing, building history and anatomical drawing at the private technical college. Throughout his life and posthumously numerous exhibitions; u. a. In 2005, on the occasion of his 90th birthday, a large individual exhibition in the Regensburg Art and Trade Association.

His son Vitus Wurmdobler is a well-known restorer.

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SURNAME Wurmdobler, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH regensburg
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 2008
Place of death near Regensburg