Heinrich Fick (painter)

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Heinrich Fick (born June 2, 1860 in Nuremberg ; † found on April 10, 1911 there ) was a deaf German painter , disabled activist and alpinist .

Live and act

Heinrich Fick was born as the Protestant son of the Nuremberg master baker (Johann) Georg Fick (born January 1, 1829 in Rückersdorf ; † January 21, 1905 in Nuremberg) and his wife Margaretha, née Lipfert (born November 2, 1833 in Betzenstein ; † 24. August 1881 in Nuremberg). The house where he was born and the bakery on Äußeren Laufer Platz 2 in Nuremberg was destroyed in a bomb attack in 1945.

Fick was good friends with the also deaf Nuremberg art professor Paul Ritter and worked as a painter in Munich . There he married his wife Amalie Spott (* 1886 in Munich; † 1978 there), whose parents Ferdinand Spott and Julie came from Schweinfurt and were deaf. He had three children with her. From 1899 he lived in the villa of the Spott family at Hofmillerstraße 32 . Ferdinand Spott, modeller and ciseleur , had the villa built that year.

On April 2, 1898, he was one of the five founders of the deaf-and-dumb society "Hufeisen - Kunst und Handwerk", which is still operating under the name of the Deaf Association "Hufeisen" 1898 Munich e. V. exists. The name of the association goes back to a horseshoe that the five founders found on a hike. The purpose of the association was to protect deaf artists and artisans. According to the later association chairman Peter Funke, Fick was "a great personality, a respected artist in Munich".

In 1901, the central association for the welfare of needy deaf-mutes in Bavaria was founded, whose chairman Heinrich Fick was until his death. In 1908 the 7th German Deaf-Mute Congress (see History of the Deaf: 1873 ) took place under his leadership in Munich, of which he was president.

Heinrich Fick was an active mountaineer. Various communications from the DÖAV as well as a documented lecture by the sculptor Fritz Christ in 1903 indicate that in 1891 he was the leader of a rope team on the first ascent of the Totenkirchl through the "Christ-Fick- Kamin ".

On April 10, 1911, he was found dead in the Johannisfriedhof in Nuremberg, where he shot himself at the grave of his parents (quote from the Fränkischer Kurier of April 11, 1911: "... that a foreign painter was in the Johannisfriedhof ' a shot in the right temple '”). The grave site was closed in 1975; the tombstone without an inscription is still standing.

In the documentation and education center for the Bavarian history of the deaf at the Bavarian Association of the Deaf e. V. in Munich hangs a portrait of Heinrich Fick from 1908 by the likewise deaf painter Anton Kaulbach (1864–1934).

Honors

In addition to the “Christ-Fick-Kamins” on the Totenkirchl, named after him and Fritz Christ, the “Heinrich-Fick-Saal” in the Munich Deaf Center in Lohengrinstrasse 11 has been named after him since 2002.

literature

  • Heinrich Fick - a deaf first climber. In: Fritz Schmitt: Mountaineer Anecdotes. Bruckmann, Munich 1985, p. 71.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ church records duplicate, (C 21 / II Nr. 252, p 194, entry 125), death entry C 27 / II no. 633/239, death entry C 27 / II Nr. 102/1982, Nuremberg City Archives .
  2. ↑ a b Text for the 949th program Seeing instead of hearing with a contribution about the deaf association "Hufeisen" 1898 Munich , April 18, 1999 (archived at taubenschlag.de ( memento of the original from August 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.taubenschlag.de
  3. ^ Nicole Scharff: August Exter and the villa colonies in Munich-Neupasing. Munich 1994, p. 120 u. E 95.
  4. ↑ a b 1898 ; In: Chronicle of the deaf and dumb associations in Munich. Monacensia Signing History (Mohegis).
  5. ^ Association of the Deaf "Horseshoe" 1898 e. V. Taub Wissen, Institute for German Sign Language and Communication of the Deaf at the University of Hamburg .
  6. ↑ Fritz Christ: The first ascent of the Todenkirchl by the Christ-Fick-Kamin. (Lecture March 4, 1903). Published as the 3rd special edition of the Society of Alpine Book Friends. Munich 1937, 31 pp.
  7. ↑ Horst Höfler : On the value of the spoken word. In: alpinwelt . 1/2011, pp. 12-14.
  8. ^ Fränkischer Kurier , April 11, 1911. Nuremberg City Archives
  9. ↑ according to the entry of the St. Johannis cemetery administration
  10. ↑ attribution ; In: Honorary awards from GMU , Association of the Deaf Munich and Surrounding Area eV
personal data
SURNAME Fuck, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, disabled activist and alpinist
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH April 1911
Place of death Nuremberg