Max Fritz

Trompe-l'œil
with postcards from Germany
Watercolor (52 × 42 cm)

Autograph by Max Fritz

Max Fritz (born July 14, 1849 in Berlin , † July 7, 1920 in Arneburg ) was a German landscape painter .

Life

Max Fritz had private lessons with Alexius Geyer in Berlin and with the court painter Carl Gustav Wegener in Potsdam . His further education took place independently through studies according to nature. From 1869 he lived in North America. Back in Germany, he worked as a landscape painter in Dresden around 1884 and was on the board of the " Dresden Art Cooperative ". In 1891 he went to Munich with his wife Hedwig, their two daughters Gertrud and Paula and their sons Richard and Georg. In 1895 the family moved to Berlin, where he became a member of the “ Association of Berlin Artists ”. Further stations were Lübben in the Spreewald around 1904 and from 1913 Detmold .

Max Fritz was mainly a watercolor painter . His pictures were views of German landscapes, often in a gentle spring mood. From 1881 he sent the well-known German art exhibitions, such as those of the Berlin Art Academy and from 1896 to 1914 the great Berlin art exhibitions . In 1891, along with Franz Skarbina and Hans Herrmann from Berlin, Arthur Kampf from Düsseldorf and Hans von Bartels from Munich, he was one of the five founding members of the “ Society of German Watercolorists ”. His son Georg Fritz also became a well-known painter and graphic artist .

“Besides Skarbina and Dettmann, the landscape painter Max Fritz was most involved in the exhibition. With his modest, simple technique he stays away from extreme directions, but knows how to get the most delicate and finest coloristic effects even from the most inconspicuous motifs in his mood pictures from Holland, Rügen and the Mark. "

- Adolf Rosenberg

literature

Fritz, Max . 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. 507 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Fritz, Max. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1/1, sheets 1–30: Aagaard – Heideck. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1891, p. 336 ( archive.org ).
Sven-Wieland Staps: Fritz, Max . 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. 327.

Web links

Commons : Max Fritz - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Works by Max Fritz on the artnet portal

Individual evidence

^ Dresdener Kunstgenossenschaft… Treasurer of the cooperative, Mr. painter Max Fritz, Ostbahnstraße 9 in Dresden-Altstadt. In: Kunstchronik: Weekly for art and applied arts. Volume 23, 1888, p. 355.
^ Association of German Watercolor Artists. In: Kunstchronik: Weekly for art and applied arts. New series Volume 3, 1892, p. 329.
↑ Collections and exhibitions. AR ( Adolf Rosenberg ): Berlin. Society of German Watercolor Artists, eighth exhibition in the Künstlerhaus. In: Kunstchronik: Weekly for art and applied arts. New series Volume 10, 1899, p. 221.

personal data
SURNAME	Fritz, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Fritz-Lübben, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH	July 14, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	July 7, 1920
Place of death	Arneburg

[1] Dresdener Kunstgenossenschaft… Treasurer of the cooperative, Mr. painter Max Fritz, Ostbahnstraße 9 in Dresden-Altstadt. In: Kunstchronik: Weekly for art and applied arts. Volume 23, 1888, p. 355.

[2] Association of German Watercolor Artists. In: Kunstchronik: Weekly for art and applied arts. New series Volume 3, 1892, p. 329.

[3] Collections and exhibitions. AR ( Adolf Rosenberg ): Berlin. Society of German Watercolor Artists, eighth exhibition in the Künstlerhaus. In: Kunstchronik: Weekly for art and applied arts. New series Volume 10, 1899, p. 221.