Hans Friedrich (painter, 1887)

Hans Friedrich (born June 17, 1887 in Gohlis , † April 12, 1967 in Wiesbaden ) was a German painter and illustrator .

Life

Hans Friedrich was born in 1887 as the third child of Karl Oswald Friedrich and Minna Ida Friedrich, he also had a brother Walter and a sister Trude. Friedrich's ancestors on his father's side had been citizens of Leipzig since 1650 and resided there as fishermen and master fishermen. His grandfather was a pawnshop expedition at the Leipzig pawnshop and his father was an insurance officer at the Leipziger Feuerversicherung.

As early as 1903 he began studying in Leipzig at the Academy for Graphic Arts and the Book Industry. There he was a student of Franz Hein . In 1909 he began studying with Professor Angelo Jank at his drawing school and took anatomy lessons with Professor Molieu. In 1911 a study visit to Paris followed. From 1912 he was back in Leipzig as an illustrator and commercial artist, then also as a portrait and landscape painter, in oil and watercolor. For decades he was a freelancer for the Leipziger Illustrierte Zeitung . Various “official postcards” from the Leipzig International Building Exhibition in 1913 were also made by him.

On April 2, 1914, he married Agnes Lotte Beyrich in Auerbach in the Vogtland (born April 12, 1890 in Döbeln ; † January 3, 1964 in Wiesbaden). Her father Hermann Theodor Beyrich was then "Steuerrath" in Auerbach.

Friedrich took part in the First World War, was wounded and released as a lieutenant. His only daughter Liselotte was born on March 28, 1915 in Leipzig-Gohlis. On her birth certificate, his profession is stated as “painter”. He refused the pension he was entitled to after being wounded in the war on the grounds that the German Reich needed the money for more important things.

In 1925 he took part in a trip on a fishing steamer to North Iceland and Greenland at the invitation of the "German Deep Sea Fisheries". In 1929 he received a large order from the Museum of Sea Fishing in Wesermünde , namely 15 large murals about the historical development of sea fishing. During these years he also went on study trips to England, Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands and Spain.

From 1940 to 1945 he took part in World War II, in which he was seriously wounded twice. After the end of the war he stayed in Leipzig until 1950 and tried again to support himself and his family as a self-employed painter.

In 1950 he went to Wiesbaden . In order to make the new beginning in the Federal Republic a little easier, his brother Walter took parcels with everything that could be sent as postal parcels to various Leipzig post offices, with false sender details in order to conceal the origin. He created a new home for himself and his wife in Wiesbaden, where he painted portraits and landscapes on the Rhine and Taunus. In Wiesbaden he received orders to paint the various boards of the Federal Criminal Police Office . He also took part in exhibitions in the fountain colonnade .

In the spring of 2000, an exhibition of his pictures took place in the municipal museum in Wasserburg am Inn , where he often stayed.

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• Lexicon of visual artists of the XX. Century. Seemann-Verlag, Leipzig, 1955.