Hanny Fries

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Hanny Fries (born November 27, 1918 in Zurich ; † December 7, 2009 , actually Johanna Katharina Fries ) was a Swiss painter , draftsman and illustrator .

life and work

Hanny Fries came from a family of painters. Her father Willy Fries was also her first teacher. Her mother was the writer Katharina Fries-Righini (1894–1973). In Zurich she studied at the School of Applied Arts and in Geneva at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. In Geneva she met her first husband, Ludwig Hohl , whose estate she was looking after.

Hanny Fries lived and worked in Zurich. There she married Hans Aeschbacher , from whom she divorced a short time later. She later dated her partner Benno Blumenstein, who died in 2010. Fries had a great gift for observation, which she liked to inspire for drawings in the Cafe Olivenbaum . She accompanied the Schauspielhaus Zürich from 1954 to 1983 . Her drawings illustrated theater reviews - such as most of the world premieres by Friedrich Dürrenmatt - in the NZZ , in fact , in the Weltwoche and in the Tages-Anzeiger . Fries was involved in the Zurich GSMBK . Fries' studio was in the Dolder Quarter at Klosbachstrasse 150 and was built by her grandfather Francesco Righini (1837–1914).

Hanny Fries was regularly traveling abroad, especially in cities and villages in southern France , Corsica and Tuscany as well as in Venice . Her interest was in everyday life and goings-on beyond tourist attractions. From 1970 the small coastal town of Castiglione della Pescaia in Tuscany became a popular travel destination. For many years she spent the spring in the south of France, the summer in Castiglione, visiting beaches, pine forests or watching life in village squares.

Her main works include theater drawings, in painting (oil, gouaches , large-format watercolors) motifs from waiting rooms, park benches, brioches and still lifes as well as enamel wall designs and lithographs . She has also illustrated over 120 books. In 1981 she was awarded the City of Zurich Art Prize.

For her 100th birthday, works were shown in her studio house in 2018. This is now also open to the public.

Works: Illustrated books (selection)

  • Ludwig Hohl: Nocturnal way . Morgarten-Verlag, Zurich 1943, with 15 pen drawings. - New edition of the Swiss Literary Archives, Bern 2004, with 9 illustrations
  • Oscar Wilde: Stories and Fairy Tales . Gutenberg Book Guild, Zurich 1944, with around 60 illustrations
  • Gilbert Cresbron: Traduit du vent, contes . Guilde du livre, Lausanne 1945, with 42 illustrations
  • Lewis Carroll: Alice in Wonderland . Gutenberg Book Guild, Zurich 1947, with 44 illustrations
  • Hans Roelli: Lingering Summer, Poems . Interverlag, Zurich 1947, with 29 illustrations
  • Paul Chaponnière: Trois crayons . Société des bibliophiles, Bâle 1948, with 30 illustrations
  • Uz Oettinger: Vive l'Alsace . Otto Walter Verlag, Olten 1952, with 18 illustrations
  • Friedrich Schnack: Sibylle and the field flowers, natural poetry . Otto Walter Verlag, Olten 1952, with 9 illustrations
  • Colette: La vagabonde . Gutenberg Book Guild, Zurich 1954, with 38 illustrations
  • François Daulte: Venice. A sketchbook . Origo Verlag, Zurich 1954, with 39 illustrations
  • Christian Staub: Circus . Verlag Hans Rudolf Stauffacher, Zurich 1955, with 10 illustrations. - English edition John Lane, the Bodley Head, London 1957, with 10 sketches
  • Aldous Leonard Huxley: The Genius and the Goddess, Roman . Book club ex-libris, Zurich 1956, with 9 illustrations
  • François Marie Arouet de Voltaire: Candidus, Zadig, Treuherz . Manesse Verlag, Zurich 1956, with 38 illustrations
  • Rudolf Graber: A trip to another country, a story . Alpha-Presse, Zurich 1957, with 7 illustrations
  • Hermann Hesse: Ticino . Verlag der Arche, Zurich 1957, with 15 illustrations; and new edition 1973
  • Erwin Jaeckle: But the honey smells of thyme, poems . Atlantis Verlag, Zurich 1961, with 19 illustrations
  • Gerda Bächli: On the wings of song, German poems as songs . Sveriges Radio, Stockholm 1962, with 28 illustrations
  • Geoffrey Bocca: Bikini Beach, the Riviera, the paradise of venial sins . Scherz, Bern 1963, with 12 illustrations; and licensed edition of the Deutscher Bücherbund, Stuttgart 1964
  • Claudine (pseudonym for Mabel Zuppinger): My green heart . Scherz, Bern 1964, with 25 illustrations; and 2nd edition 1965; new edition 1992; Paperback edition 1995
  • Doris Langley Moore: The Art of Seducing with Spirit . Sanssouci Verlag, Zurich 1964, with 10 illustrations
  • Eastern Swiss vines - Eastern Swiss wine (text by Ernst Nägeli ). Huber, Frauenfeld and Stuttgart 1966, with 23 illustrations
  • Jürg Fierz: Walks in Zurich: from streets and squares, houses and old quarters . Orell Füssli publishing house, Zurich 1974, with 40 illustrations; ISBN 3-280-00950-2
  • Hanny Fries: Theater drawing, 1000 theater drawings . Publisher Hans Rudolf Lutz, Zurich 1978
  • Martin Hürlimann: From the city theater to the opera house, Zurich theater stories . Werner Classen Verlag, Zurich 1980, with 28 illustrations
  • Erwin Parker : Mein Schauspielhaus, memories of the Zurich theater years 1933-1947 . Pendo Verlag, Zurich 1983, with 18 illustrations
  • Peter Surava: Fate and Stages of Life in the Light of the Later Years . Verlag Rolf Kugler, Oberwil bei Zug 1986, with 8 illustrations; and 2nd edition 1988
  • Walter Munz: We belong to one another, encounters with addicts and AIDS patients . Huber Verlag Frauenfeld, 2003, with 13 illustrations; ISBN 3-7193-1327-1
  • Hanny Fries: Dürrenmatt at the Schauspielhaus Zürich, theater drawings 1954–1983 . Exhibition catalog. Center Dürrenmatt , Neuchâtel 2006, with 23 illustrations
  • Walter Robert Corti, Children's World Trade - a proposal by Walter Robert Corti , ed. vom Schweizerischer Nansenbund, Riehen, 1951 (?), with 13 illustrations

literature

  • Ludmila Vachtova : property without possession. Hanny Fries, painter . NZZ, Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-85823-757-4
  • Werner Morlang : The most reliable of my joys. Hanny Fries and Ludwig Hohl: Conversations, letters, drawings and documents . Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-312-00310-5
  • Reto Caluori: Hanny Fries . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 1, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 645.
  • Martin Germann: Hanny Fries (1918–2009) as book illustrator: The early years (until 1955) , in: Librarium, vol. 54 No. 1, 2011, pp. 2–20, and The years since 1955 , in vol. 56 No. 2/3, 2013, pp. 63–82.
  • Sigismund Righini, Willy Fries, Hanny Fries: an artist dynasty in Zurich, 1870-2009 , ed. by Sascha Renner on behalf of the Righini Fries Foundation; Verlag Scheidegger & Spiess, 2018, 367 p., Ill. with over 200 images; ISBN 978-3-85881-601-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Artist Hanny Fries is dead , Basler Zeitung online from December 8, 2009
  2. ^ Righini Foundation: writer Catharina Fries-Righini. Retrieved November 7, 2019 .
  3. ↑ http://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/content/dam/stzh/kultur/Deutsch/Institutionen/Ausstellungen%20Stadthaus/Grafik%20und%20Foto/2007/Hanny_Fries/_Pressetext.pdf
  4. ↑ Martin Germann: Hanny Fries (1918–2009) as a book illustrator , in: Librarium , vol. 56 No. 2/3, 2013, p. 82
  5. ^ Hanny Fries - property without property. Hanny Fries - painter ( Memento of the original from February 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. NZZ libro, accessed December 8, 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nzz-libro.ch
  6. ↑ Art Prize of the City of Zurich 1981 for Hanny Fries . In: Schweizer Kunst = Art suisse = Arte svizzera = Swiss art , Issue 1, 1982, pp. 13–15.
personal data
SURNAME Fries, Hanny
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 2009
Place of death Zurich