Hannes Schultze-Froitzheim

Hannes Schultze-Froitzheim (born June 30, 1904 in Elberfeld , † October 10, 1995 in Kiel ; born: Hans Werner Schultze ) was a German painter and graphic artist.

Life

Hannes Schultze-Froitzheim studied from 1920 in evening and Sunday courses with Max Bernuth , Heinrich Phieler and Seiss in drawing at the crafts and arts and crafts school in Elberfeld , parallel to commercial training. In 1925 he was able to enroll as a full-time student in Elberfeld. In 1926 he moved to the Düsseldorf Art Academy , where he was a master student with Heinrich Nauen from 1929 and then with Heinrich Campendonk until 1932. He then moved to Berlin where he worked as a freelance artist until he was drafted into the war. Until it was closed by the National Socialists in 1934, he also attended the Itten School of the former Bauhaus director Johannes Itten . In the years after his time in Düsseldorf he undertook various longer study trips to Italy, Czechoslovakia, Belgium, France, Spain, Norway, Denmark, Holland and Finland.

Due to a confusion of his name, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1939 and first had to go to the Eastern Front as a soldier . He later came to Paris as a soldier , where he worked as a cartographer for the Wehrmacht. In Paris he was able to take part in drawing courses, especially for nude painting, at the Paris Academy. The work he had created until 1943 was completely destroyed in a bomb attack in Berlin.

After the end of the Second World War , he spent a few months in captivity in the United States. After that he lived in Hof / Saale and Wiesbaden, among others . He worked as a commercial artist for various clients and gave painting and drawing courses at adult education centers . During this time he was in close contact with artists such as Werner Gilles , Gottfried Brockmann and his colleagues in Wuppertal .

In 1954, Schultze-Froitzheim received an order from the city of Kiel for a portrait of the physicist Max Planck . Then Schultze-Froitzheim took up residence in Kiel. There he was in charge of the Brunswiker Pavilion for two years, where he organized exhibitions, among other things. He took part in numerous exhibitions at home and abroad and was awarded the Lindner Prize in 1969.

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Schultze-Froitzheim sought the interplay of shape and color in his works. He examined the mutual relationship between forms and often reduced them to the purely geometric body. He was also concerned with the interaction between light and dark shapes and round and pointed shapes.

His stays by the sea in Scandinavia and Italy further inspired him to study and experiment with different shapes. The late work is dominated by his so-called "compositions". In his mixed techniques he turns completely away from the figurative and uses different materials to represent the play between shape and color on the surface.

Memberships

• State Association of Visual Artists Schleswig-Holstein
• Group 56, Kiel (until 1964)
• Group NO,
• rbk , Wuppertal
• Artists' Association Malkasten, Düsseldorf

Exhibitions (selection)

• "1956 Annual Show". Artists Association of Schleswig-Holstein, Kunsthalle, Kiel 1956.
• "Annual exhibition 1958" of the Cartel of German Artists' Associations eV Mathildenhöhe , Darmstadt 1958.
• "Slesvig-Holstenske Kunstnere", Vandreudstilling, Jylland 1960.
• Schleswig-Holstein contemporary artists. Painting, graphics, plastic, Beethovenhalle, Bonn , 1960.
• "Schleswig Holstein Painters". Röderhaus , Wuppertal-Barmen, 1963.
• "Group NO". Schleswig-Holstein artists, Städtisches Museum, Flensburg 1964.
• "Hannes Schultze-Froitzheim". Kiel, Museum of the City of Gladbeck, Wittringen Castle, Gladbeck 1965.
• “3 painters from the international group rbk Wuppertal show paintings and graphics. Brandau, Pütter, Schultze-Froitzheim ”, Remscheid City Theater 1966.
• "The small format". Artists' association Malkasten, Düsseldorf 1966.
• “Hannes Schultze-Froitzheim. Painting, graphics ”. University of Kiel 1974.
• "Figuration and abstraction in the post-war period Heinrich Ehmsen and Hannes Schultze-Froitzheim", Stadtgalerie Kiel 2004.
• "Hannes Schultze-Froitzheim: Painting". Historisches Museum am Strom Hildegard von Bingen, Bingen am Rhein 2007.
• "Hannes Schultze-Froitzheim". Latham & Watkins, Hamburg 2010/2011.
• "Hannes Schultze-Froitzheim (1904–1995). Paths to Abstraction. Forum for the Estates of Artists , Hamburg 2012.

Works in museums (selection)

• From the Heydt Museum , Wuppertal.
• Bavarian Vogtland Museum , Hof.
• City Gallery Kiel
• Cityscape, Kiel.

Paintings (selection)

• Washed Up (1945)
• Child with doll (1945)
• Updraft (1948)
• Composition with a black triangle (1950)
• Max Planck (1954)
• Archipelago (1960)
• Outside the Action (1963)
• Material picture III (1972)
• Composition basic forms (1974)
• Colored Study II (1982)

estate

The artistic estate comprises around 1000 works. With over 460 works, the paintings make up the largest part. Watercolors, drawings and graphics complete the oeuvre. The estate of Hannes Schultze-Froitzheim can be found in the forum for estates from artists in Hamburg.

literature

• Eike Pies (Ed.): Boundless. Gruppe rbK ​​- Kunst & Künstler 1946 - 1996. Brockhaus, Solingen 1997, ISBN 3-930132-06-0 .
• Gerhart Bettermann, Werner Rieger: Schleswig-Holstein Group 1956. Ibbeken, Schleswig, approx. 1958, DNB 450433048
• Flyer of the Forum for Legacies eV on the occasion of the exhibition at Latham & Watkins.

Web links

• Hannes Schultze-Froitzheim on kuenstlernachlaesse.de