Fritz von Hellingrath

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Friedrich "Fritz" August Josef von Hellingrath (born May 29, 1866 in Munich , † December 25, 1946 in Burgau near Günzburg ) was a German professional officer , landscape painter, draftsman and etcher.

family

An ancestor, Hermann Hellingrath († 1756) from Ratingen, had been ennobled by the Wittelsbach rulers in Düsseldorf and the descendants were transferred to the Bavarian nobility in 1843. The father, Friedrich von Hellingrath (1826-1896), was a royal Bavarian treasurer and from 1890 Lieutenant General and chief of the gendarmerie. The mother, Louise Henriette Auguste, née Freiin von Brandt zu Neidstein (* 1837), was born in Munich like the father. However, her family came from the Upper Palatinate. The two older sons, Philipp and Max (* 1864), embarked on a career as an officer. Philipp von Hellingrath retired in 1918 as Bavarian Minister of War and General of the Cavalry. Max was married to a princess Cantacuzène. Their son Norbert von Hellingrath (* 1888), a literary scholar, died in December 1914 as a lieutenant at Verdun .

Life

Fritz von Hellingrath attended the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich from 1875 to 1885 and, after graduating from high school, started an officer career. After doing basic military service in the infantry body regiment , he was promoted to sergeant, in 1887 to second lieutenant and then employed as an inspection officer in the cadet corps. He presumably used a one-year leave of absence in 1891/92 for private artistic training, for which the landscape painter August Fink and the etcher Karl Theodor Meyer-Basel (1860–1932) in Munich are named as his teachers . In June 1892 he married Maria Freiin von Gumppenberg -Pöttmeß (* 1863), the daughter of a chamberlain and major general. Their son Walter was born in 1893. In 1898 Fritz von Hellingrath entered into a second marriage with Sophie Freiin von Pfetten- Arnbach (* 1868), after he had previously been promoted to Prime Lieutenant. In 1905 he was transferred to Augsburg as captain and head of the gendarmerie corps and stayed there after his retirement. He died of arteriosclerosis at the age of 80 in the hospital in Burgau near Günzburg .

As a visual artist, Fritz von Hellingrath participated in the Munich annual exhibitions in the Glaspalast since 1899 , but also in exhibitions in Berlin, Dresden and Stuttgart with oil paintings, gouaches, watercolors and especially with etchings. In 1931 he was involved in the exhibition of the artist groups "Welle", "Die Frauenwörther" and "Die Herrenwörther", among the exhibitors also his fellow high school graduate Ludwig Bolgiano and Princess Hildegard of Bavaria . He found the motifs for his depiction of wide landscapes and rural properties in the near and far surroundings of Munich, Dachau and Augsburg, in the Bavarian Alpine foothills as well as on Lake Constance , in Alsace and in the Black Forest . With Max Eduard Giese , Carl Strathmann , René Reinicke , Hans Beat Wieland , Wilhelm Jakob Hertling, Hugo Kreyssig , Josua von Gietl , Rudolf Köselitz , Paul Leuteritz and Hans Gabriel Jentsch , he was one of the founders of the Munich Watercolor Artists Association and a member of the Munich Association for Original Etching , the General German Art Cooperative and the Reich Association of German Artists .

Selection of works

Eppan
  • Alpine foothills , An der Schmutter , watercolors, Städtische Galerie Augsburg
  • Evening clouds in autumn , oil paintings, Dachau Museum Association
  • View of the Peißenberg , oil painting, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen (Neue Pinakothek), Munich
  • View of Münster Reichenau , pastures on Lake Constance , farmstead with pond , atmospheric picture , watercolors, municipal gallery Munich
  • further works: Berlin (Kupferstichkabinett) and Munich (graphic collection)

Literature (selection)

  • Hans Karlinger (introduction): Picturesque from the formerly free imperial city of Nördlingen after etchings and watercolors by Oskar Graf, Cäcilie Graf-Pfaff and Fritz von Hellingrath. Nordlingen 1924.
  • Dressler's art manual . 1930.
  • Hermann Degener (Ed.): Who is it? 10th edition, Leipzig 1935.
  • Hellingrath, Fritz von . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 16 : Hansen – Heubach . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1923, p. 340 .
  • Hellingrath, Fritz von . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 6 , supplements H-Z . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1962.
  • Lorenz J. Reitmeier: Dachau. Views and testimonies from twelve centuries. Volume 3, p. 252 (fig.); Addendum, p. 131, no. 387 (ill.).
  • Bruckmann's Lexicon of Munich Art. Munich painter in the 19th century. Volume 2, 1982 (Fig.).
  • Britta Heimerl: Fritz von Hellingrath. The etchings. Unprinted master's thesis, Augsburg 1995.
  • Siegfried Weiß : Art career aspiration. Painter, graphic artist, sculptor. Former students of the Munich Maximiliansgymnasium from 1849 to 1918. Allitera Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86906-475-8 , pp. 237–241 (Fig.)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German Adelslexikon (Hermann Hellingrath).
  2. ^ Registration documents (PMB): Friedrich and Fritz von Hellingrath: Munich, City Archives.
  3. ↑ Munich Latest News. No. 52, February 15, 1917: Obituary notice.
  4. ^ Maximiliansgymnasium Munich, archive: matriculation and annual reports 1875/76 to 1884/85.
  5. ^ Death certificate: Burgau, City Archives.
  6. ^ Munich, annual exhibitions in the royal glass palace in 1899, 1901, 1904, 1906–1914, 1916, 1920 and 1921; Berlin, Great Berlin Art Exhibition 1903–1906, 1908; Dresden 1909 and Stuttgart 1913.
  7. ↑ Munich Latest News. No. 185, July 11, 1931.
  8. ↑ Inv. No. 9294; Fig .: Münchner Maler 2 (1982)
personal data
SURNAME Hellingrath, Fritz von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hellingrath, Friedrich August Josef von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German professional officer, landscape painter, draftsman and etcher
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1946
Place of death Burgau near Günzburg