Johann Friedrich Fritz
Johann Friedrich Fritz (born July 31, 1798 in Wandsbek ( Holstein ), † March 1, 1870 in Altona ( Prussia )) was a German painter and lithographer .
Life
Johann Friedrich Fritz, son of a stove manufacturer presumably from Bavaria, was a student of the Hamburg painter and etcher Christopher Suhr from 1819 at the latest , who probably also taught him the then new technique of lithography.His earliest surviving work, probably made in 1819, is a portrait of the Turkish ambassador Ismael Gibraltar after a drawing by Suhr. From June 21, 1821 he studied history painting at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich and from the end of 1823 at the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen . There he took part in the annual exhibitions from 1824 to 1826. While still in Copenhagen in April 1826, he asked to be allowed to found a lithographic printing company in Flensburg with the local citizen Hans Peter Behrens ("Flensburger Steruck von Behrens & Fritz"). The company was quite successful from 1828. In addition to business papers, art sheets, portraits and views were printed. From 1828 the company was involved in the project of a folder with 34 lithographs based on the India ink drawings by Conrad Christian Bøhndels based on the Bordesholmer Altar . In 1828 he married Johanne Cecilie Mariane von Neuendahl.
In 1837/38 Behrens left the company, which was now called "JF Fritz's lithography". It was getting worse and worse economically. After the failed Schleswig-Holstein uprising in 1848 , Fritz had to leave Flensburg and first went to Rendsburg and later to Altona. There he worked occasionally for the lithographic company of Charles Fuchs , he did not reopen his own company.
Works
There is only one known painting by him
- Group of Greek, Armenian and Turkish merchants in a Viennese coffee house , 1824, Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst
literature
- Philipp Weilbach: Fritz, Johan Frederik . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 5 : Faaborg – Gersdorff . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1891, p. 461 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
- Fritz, Johann Friedrich . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 12 : Fiori-Fyt . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1916, p. 506 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Jutta Müller: Johann Friedrich Fritz (1798–1870) and the beginnings of lithography in Schleswig-Holstein. Westholsteinische Verlagsanstalt Boyen, Heide in Holstein 1992, ISBN 3-8042-0588-7 (with complete catalog of works).
- Fritz, Johan Friedrich . In: Weilbach - Dansk Kunstnerleksikon Volume 2, Copenhagen 1994 ( digitized version ).
- Johann Müller: Fritz, Johann Friedrich . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 45, Saur, Munich a. a. 2005, ISBN 3-598-22785-X , p. 325.
Web links
- Works in the Statens Museum for Konst Copenhagen
Remarks
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fritz, Johann Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and lithographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 31, 1798 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wandsbek |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 1, 1870 |
| Place of death | Altona |