Karl Friedrich (painter)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article or section needs to be revised:
maybe there is someone who wants to clean up something with the help of the article from the AKL.
Please help to improve it , and then remove this flag.

Karl Ludwig Ferdinand Friedrich (born December 21, 1898 in Magdeburg ; † October 12, 1989 there ) was a German painter , graphic artist and arts and crafts teacher .

Life

His parents were Karl (Carl) Friedrich († 1963) and Margarethe Lamps. His father was an office worker in the Gruson factory in Magdeburg and lived from around 1890 to 1899 at Tauenzienstrasse 1 (Liebigstrasse).

He grew up in Magdeburg- Buckau and in Ahlbeck . He had a very close relationship with his aunt Henny Lamps, married to Eduard Oeste. Due to the war (World War II) he probably lived partly in her household.

He showed his artistic skills at an early age, as he exhibited his first color woodcuts at the age of 15. His artistic training took him from 1913 to 1917 to the Magdeburg School of Applied Arts and Crafts , then to the Berlin School of Fine Arts, to Hans Baluschek's private school and to Max Thedy's art school in Weimar.

In addition to the motifs from Magdeburg, due to his stays in Berlin, a whole series of pictures from the capital have been preserved or can be seen in the local museums.

However, painting was not suitable for becoming Reich, so that he also worked as an assistant teacher at the Magdeburg School of Applied Arts and Crafts from 1932 to 1933/34 and as a teaching assistant at this school in Berlin from 1933/34. His area of ​​responsibility included a. in it, "in order to create a curriculum for 'basic figural elements' through studies in the natural history museum, in the zoological institute, in the anatomy of the university etc., which should contain standard situations from the animal world from the cell to characteristic movement sequences." (Gerd Kley, 2004)

In addition to painting, he also gave private drawing lessons. During the Second World War a. a. as part of “Strength and Joy”.

His most famous student was the Schönebeck painter and graphic artist Werner Tübke from around 1935–1945 .

Karl Friedrich was drafted for military service in 1944, only to return to his hometown Magdeburg in mid-1946 after being a prisoner of war in England. “1955–58 he worked as a lecturer at the technical college for construction in Magdeburg (geometric drawing, projection and perspective), worked as a restorer for museums, the state art trade and for private collectors, as a lecturer at the adult education center and at a company school of the state Trade organization. "(Gerd Kley, 2004)

“At retirement age, he made numerous trips through Germany and Italy. Friedrich was known from his near homeland for his watercolors of churches, houses and urban landscapes, which he painted with almost photographic accuracy. The “chronicler with the brush” (Halfas, 1996) created pictures of documentary importance, in which he attached great importance to craftsmanship. “(Gerd Kley, 2004)

“Compliance with basic design rules, such as the central perspective , was also the top law for him in his art education efforts. Friedrich, who liked to refer to himself as “Magdeburger Spitzweg”, was a member of the St. Lukas artists' association for many years and enjoyed a high level of acceptance as an artist and person. ”(Gerd Kley, 2004)

Artistically, his trademark was certainly the detailed and exact reproduction of objects or views. In his private life, he was characterized by his always elegant clothes: Almost never seen without a tie and especially often with a bow tie .

He was probably married to Alina Friedrich. The marriage was likely concluded in his later years. Nothing is known about children.

Most recently he lived at Wilhelm-Pieck-Allee 10 (sometimes referred to as Wilhelm-Pieck-Straße in some sources) in Magdeburg. In 1989, shortly before the fall of the Wall, he died in hospital (he was admitted to the hospital because of lung cancer, fell out of the bed and suffered a fractured femur). He was buried on October 26, 1989 in the Waldfriedhof in Magdeburg.

After the painter's death, the Kunst- und Antikhaus Magdeburg bought the artistic estate.

Works

  • Portrait of his grandfather Lamps (privately owned, probably lost during World War II)
  • Painting Magdeburg Cathedral from the other side of the Elbe, 1957, presumably a present for his cousin's silver wedding anniversary (privately owned, lost from his estate)
  • probably 2 black and white etchings with a view of Magdeburg Cathedral ("Magdeburg-Dom") and a view of a half-timbered house ("Old House") (probably lost in World War II)
  • Kunsthistorisches Museum Magdeburg (2 paintings, watercolors, stone drawings)
  • Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin (paper picture “Technical Clocks”, 1932; graphic “View of Langen Strasse in Rostock”, 1949; poster “The New Tailpiece According to the Zöphel System”, 1951; oil painting “Construction Magdeburg Karl-Marx-Strasse”, 1953 ; Graphic "Courtyard view of the half-timbered houses on Berliner Fischerstraße", 1964; Graphic "Berliner Hinterhof" (courtyard of the old Berlin Marionette Theater / Fischerstraße 32, Berlin), 1964)
  • Märkisches Museum, Berlin
  • Art and Antique House Magdeburg, Otto-von-Guericke-Str. 106, 39104 Magdeburg (oil painting "The Lute Player", approx. 1963; "Half-timbered house painting 1965 Cracau Prester Buckau")
  • “Turkish Small Town” oil / canvas, 1972
  • Internet search ("Painting Alps", "On the beach in Ahrenshoop")
  • “Cows in the Pasture”, watercolor, 1925

  • Magdeburg Heiliggeistkirche, 1959

  • Wilhelm-Pieck-Allee, 1957

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  • Information and papers from the painter's cousin
  • also noted in: Dressler's art manual , 1930, p. 276; Catalog of the Art Association Magdeburg 1938; Vollmer 2, 1955, 162; Günter Meißner: Werner Tübcke - Life and Work , 1989, p. 16ff.
  • D. Halfas: Chronicler with the brush. Pictures of the Magdeburg painter KF In: Elbröwer. Magdeburger Wochenzeitung , Volume 2, H. 14, 1996, P. 9.
personal data
SURNAME Friedrich, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friedrich, Karl Ludwig Ferdinand (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and arts and crafts teacher
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1989
Place of death Magdeburg