Georg Frietzsche

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Jan Kotík (1916–2002), left, and Georg Frietzsche (1903–1986), right, in an artist talk on May 18, 1977, Berlin

Georg Frietzsche (born May 24, 1903 in Żagań , Silesia , † June 10, 1986 in Berlin ) was a German artist of Tachistic abstract painting.

life and work

Frietzsche completed an apprenticeship as a painter and trained as a glass painter, came to Berlin in 1924 and studied from 1924 to 1928 at what was then the Hochschule für Bildende Künste (HfBK) in Berlin. After the Second World War , to which all of his previous work fell victim, he lectured at the Burg Giebichenstein art school in Halle (Saale) from 1948 to 1949 . In Berlin he lived with his wife in an artist's house in Berlin-Friedenau and worked in isolation until his death.

His work after the war was particularly influenced by Mark Tobey . His means were woodcuts , gouache , ink and watercolor, mainly on paper and cardboard.

"Georg Frietzsche's gouaches and watercolor drawings are small masterpieces that are undoubtedly among the best that post-war European art has to offer."

- Eberhard Roters, 1981

An estate is now in the Berlinische Galerie .

Exhibitions

Holdings

  • 1947: Galerie Franz, Berlin
  • 1948: Exhibition of contemporary art: painting, graphics, sculpture, handicrafts , Leipzig, Elisabeth Bellak (Frietzsche was represented with drawings)
  • 1977: Galerie im Zentrum, Berlin
  • 2001: On the inequality of the similar in art. Galerie Lindner, Vienna (together with: Raimund Girke , Thomas Kaminsky , Rolf Rose , Jerry Zeniuk and others)

Solo exhibitions

  • 1951: Galerie Wasmuth, Berlin
  • 1956: Galerie Schüler , Berlin
  • 1977: Aquarelle 1976–1977 , Galerie Richter, Berlin
  • 1981: Watercolors and drawings 1955–1980 , Neuer Berliner Kunstverein , Berlin
  • 1983: Watercolors and drawings , Kunsthalle Bremen , Bremen
  • 1994: Works 1955 to 1985 , Galerie Hachmeister, Münster
  • 1996: Villa Wessel in Iserlohn
  • 1999/2000: State Museums, Neue Galerie , Kassel; Museum am Ostwall , Dortmund
  • 2003/2004: Works 1950–1985. LWL-Landesmuseum Münster (Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History), Münster
    • On this occasion, the State Museum received ten works from the estate.

Public collections

Exhibition catalogs

  • Georg Frietzsche: Aquarelle 1976–1977 Galerie Richter, Berlin 1977. (With special edition). Text: Curt Grützmacher.
  • Georg Frietzsche: watercolors. Galerie im Zentrum, Berlin 1978. Text: Heinz Ohff .
  • Georg Frietzsche: watercolors and drawings 1955–1980. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin 1981 ( Berlin Contemporary Artists. Issue 42).
  • Georg Frietzsche: watercolors and drawings. Bremen, Kunsthalle Bremen 1983. Exhibition and catalog: Annette Meyer zu Eissen.
  • Works 1955 to 1985. Hachmeister, Münster 1994, ISBN 3-88829-125-9 . Texts: Eberhard Roters , Lorenz Dittmann , Heiner Hachmeister.
  • Georg Frietzsche (1903–1986). Edition Dittmar, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-9806903-0-X . (Appeared on the occasion of the “Georg Frietzsche” exhibition in the Staatliche Museen Kassel, Neue Galerie, and in the Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund. Published by the Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund). Texts: Matthias Bleyl, Peter Dittmar.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Galerie Dittmar via artist index. Retrieved October 13, 2017.
  2. ^ In: Berlin contemporary artists. Volume 42, 1981
  3. ^ Estate in the Berlinische Galerie
  4. ↑ Werner Langer: The possible impossible. In: Der Tagesspiegel , October 4, 1978
  5. ↑ Werner Langer: Sparse concrete art. In: Der Tagesspiegel , June 17, 1977
  6. ↑ Exhibition announcement 2003
personal data
SURNAME Frietzsche, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist of tachistic abstract painting
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Żagań
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 1986
Place of death Berlin