Hanspeter Fitz
Hanspeter Fitz (born June 28, 1929 , Buchen bei Telfs , Tyrol; † November 1, 1969 Friborg , Switzerland) was a German artist.
Life
Fitz, who grew up in Konstanz, was equally gifted musically and artistically. He first studied art history and music in Freiburg and Heidelberg (1950/51) before he studied painting with Manfred Henninger (1952/53) and finally sculpture with Otto Baum (1957) at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart . In 1960 Fitz began developing floating spatial sculptures. In 1965 he moved into his own studio in Weinstadt- Trümpfelbach and won the competition for a sculpture in the Landesgirokasse Stuttgart. In 1968 he turned to expanded metal and received the order for a large hanging sculpture in Berlin's Gropiusstadt. In March 1969 Hanspeter Fitz committed suicide.
Works
literature
- Marc Fredric Gundel: Academy student body and teaching after 1945. On the importance and problems using the example of Otto Baum and Herbert Baumann as art college teachers , dissertation University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg 1995, pp. 70–73.
Web links
- Literature by and about Hanspeter Fitz in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fitz, Hanspeter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 28, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Book with Telfs |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1st November 1969 |
| Place of death | Freiburg |