Georg Fritz (painter)

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Georg Fritz (born June 26, 1884 in Dresden , † 1967 in Mitterfels , Lower Bavaria ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Georg Fritz first grew up in Dresden, where his father Max Fritz (1849–1920), after training in Berlin and a stay in the USA, worked as a landscape painter. In 1891 he went to Munich with his wife Hedwig, their two daughters Gertrud and Paula and their sons Richard and Georg. Georg therefore attended the first class of the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich in 1894/95 . Since the family moved to Berlin in 1895, he continued his education there. He first studied with his father, a Berlin painter who was well-known at the time, and in 1891, alongside Franz Skarbina, co-founder of the “ Society of German Watercolorists ”, and then at the art college in Berlin-Charlottenburg . From the mid-1910s he worked as a freelance artist and etcher in Berlin . From 1922 Georg Fritz supported the Reich Association of Visual Artists as an expert in copyright and publishing law. In 1929 he joined the Association of Berlin Artists .

While landscape painting initially determined his work, he later turned to architecture and landscape graphics. Study trips to Italy and Brittany and lengthy, thorough studies in Paris gave him many ideas. One of his best-known works was a graphic portfolio from 1936, which he produced for the Berlin city administration. The portfolio contained eighty etchings depicting the most important older and modern buildings in the capital. The folder or individual sheets of it were given by the city as a souvenir to prominent guests. A similar folder was produced by Georg Fritz for the Mark Brandenburg in 1923 .

Fritz worked in Berlin until 1943 and was then based in Mitterfels in Lower Bavaria. In the 1940s and 1950s industrial views were created, including for Gutehoffnungshütte Oberhausen and the Volkswagen plant in Wolfsburg . Georg Fritz died in Mitterfels in 1967.

Works (selection)

Etchings

  • Lübeck: Old town views (1917), u. a. also from Gothmund .
  • Potsdam: City Palace Colonnades with a view of the Garrison Church, the old town hall, architectural detail with groups of figures, old market with town hall and palace (1924).
  • Berlin: Gendarmenmarkt with theater and French cathedral (1927), Unter den Linden with a view of the city palace (1928), town house (1926), Ullstein building in Tempelhof, Berlin city palace - Eosander portal (1947), strong pines on Lake Grunewald,
  • The Kurhaus in Wiesbaden, landscape with two poplars.
  • Gutehoffnungshütte Oberhausen - port facility (1939), Gutehoffnungshütte Oberhausen - rolling mill (1940), blast furnaces of the Gutehoffnungshütte (1940), works railway at the Sterkrade colliery (1940), Jacobi colliery (1940)
  • Volkswagen works: New construction of factory halls, production hall for hubcaps (1950/51), van production (1953), administration building (1952), new administration building (1953), ventilation system (1953), Beetle assembly (1952), Volkswagen final assembly (1953), pressing tools (1951 ), Factory halls with type 82 Kübelwagen transport vehicle (1951), accessory parts production hall (1950/51).

Watercolors / drawings / chalk

  • Views of Berlin, The Neptune Fountain on the Main Market in Nuremberg (1947), View of the Catholic Court Church in Dresden, Views of the Old Town of Lübeck (1917), Rothenburg ob der Tauber.

Folders and book equipment

  • Berlin. 30 etchings; Acquisition of the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett; Honorary gift to the city of Boston (1930) and to the Sorbonne in Paris (1931).
  • Mark Brandenburg. 30 original etchings by Georg Fritz. Preface by Dr. Willy Kurth. Berlin, Willy Weise, (1923); contains u. a. "Märkische Dorfstraße", castles in Berlin, Cüstrin, Cöpenick, Dobrilugk, Sorau, Schwedt and Wiesenburg, Park of Sanssouci, views from Alt-Döbern, Brandenburg, Jüterbog, Mittenwalde, Schwedt as well as landscape pictures.
  • Hans Christian Andersen : The improviser. Novel. Introduction by Raimund Pissin. 14 original etchings by Georg Fritz. Die Buchgemeinde, Berlin undated (approx. 1930).
  • Olympiastadion Berlin / Inneres des Berliner Olympiastadions, drawings on postcards for the Olympic Games, Berlin 1936.
  • Tannenberg Imperial Memorial (Hansgeorg Buchholz, Lötzen). With 8 illustrations after Georg Fritz.
  • Berlin the old and the new city . With 80 drawings by Georg Fritz, text Walter Puttkammer, foreword by Julius Lippert, Klinkhart & Biermann, Berlin 1936 (presented by the City of Berlin, for example, with a dedication sheet: “To the guests of the Reich capital in memory of the XI Olympic Games in Berlin 1936”. ).
  • Georg Fritz, Guglielmo Buset (Italian translation), William Webster Mann (English translation): Streets and buildings of Adolf Hitler . With a foreword by the General Inspector for German Roads, Dr. Ing.Fritz Todt . Verlag der DAF , Berlin 1938. With 120 plates after drawings by Georg Fritz.
  • German Overseas Bank: 1886-1936. (Dedicated to its employees and friends on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Deutsche Überseeische Bank). Illustrations: Georg Fritz, Elsner, Berlin 1936
  • Berlin. Shining past . 70 drawings by Georg Fritz, text Felix Havenstein, Klinkhardt & Biermann, Braunschweig and Berlin 1954. ( Denazified new edition of the title from 1936).

Archival material

  • Munich, City Archives, registration documents Max Fritz (PMB), 1891.

literature

  • Willy Oskar Dreßler : Dressler's art manual : The book of the living German artists, antiquarians, art scholars and art writers. 2. Vol. 2, Karl Curtius, Berlin 1930
  • Walter Putkammer: Georg Fritz - a German graphic artist. In: Ostdeutsche Monatshefte. Sheets of the German Heimatbund Danzig Volume 15 (1934/35), pp. 25–28.
  • Fritz, Georg . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 167 .
  • Gerhard Söhn: Handbook of the original graphics in German magazines, portfolios, art books and catalogs (HDO) 1890-1933. Band tab. Edition GS, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-92134-254-6 .
  • Fritz, Georg . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 45, Saur, Munich a. a. 2005, ISBN 3-598-22785-X .
  • 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. 336–337 (Fig.).

Web links

Commons : Postage stamps designed by Georg Fritz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Munich Maximiliansgymnasium, archive, register and annual report 1894/95.
  2. ↑ Fritz, Georg . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1914, Part I, p. 771. “Kunstmaler und Eraser, W35, Lützow-Str. 87 H. IV. ".
  3. ↑ Georg Fritz on Künstlerkolonie-gothmund.de
  4. ↑ Erhard Schütz: The Reichsautobahn in literature and other media of the "Third Reich". IASLonline , accessed March 16, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Fritz, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH 1967
Place of death Mitterfels , Lower Bavaria