Paul Friedrichsen

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Paul Friedrichsen (born October 6, 1893 in Kiel , † March 18, 1969 in Hamburg ) was a German painter and cutter .

life and work

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Paul Friedrichsen was born on October 6, 1893 in Kiel into an old family of musicians and painters. He attended the art academy in Berlin, where he worked temporarily in Lovis Corinth's painting class . He then continued his studies in Breslau. Friedrichsen came to Dresden temporarily before finally settling in Hamburg. He lived with his wife Hilde in the stairs district in Blankenese , where his studio was also located. Friedrichsen died there on March 18, 1969.

At first, Friedrichsen concentrated on traditional paper cutting. He sold his "original handcuts", illustrated children's books and published portfolios with motifs in Low German. Erotic art in the Art Deco style was also part of his repertoire.

Since 1925 at the latest, Friedrichsen has also been creating multicolored paper cuts. From this he developed his very own style, which has remained unique to this day. The balustrade of the Lombard Bridge with the Jungfernstieg in the background, which appears silhouetted in the mist, once prompted him to put a gray silhouette on his black silhouette. This manner, which meant a new silhouette style, he remained true to life. Paul Friedrichsen's silhouettes of the harbor, the Elbe and shipping, of Hamburg types and the coastal landscape, were extremely successful. As early as 1939 and 1940 he produced cover illustrations in this style for books such as Chronik der Stadt Hamburg , Chronik der Reichshauptstadt and Unser Lied (published by the National Socialist Teachers' Association Gau Hamburg), which also contain the inevitable swastika flag.

But he only achieved his absolute artistic breakthrough in the post-war period. The Commeter gallery traded his works. His Hamburgensien hung in numerous Hamburg schools . He also illustrated notebooks for school use. He named his works with Low German titles throughout. His handcutting art was so unique that he had to show it on the occasion of his 75th birthday in the current showroom .

In the post-war period, the paper cuttings were possibly primarily used to earn a living. Friedrichsen got tired of "black art" and he was overwhelmed by the longing for color. It drove him to present his world differently than in profile. Then he created oil paintings in bright, exaggerated colors and above all watercolors of the Port of Hamburg, of the Elbe and the North Sea coast, of dunes and cliffs.

His cuts, watercolors and oil paintings are still traded today.

Publications

  • Portfolio with 8 sheets by Paul Friedrichsen: From Niederdeutschland , Quickborn-Verlag Hamburg, 1922
  • Cover illustration and 9 handcuts by Paul Friedrichsen: Im Kinderland. Serious and cheerful , Saxon Pestalozzi Association, 1930
  • Cover illustration and handcuts by Paul Friedrichsen: Lebensborn 1933, A Year for Inner Renewal, Limpert Verlag, Dresden
  • Book illustrations by Paul Friedrichsen: "Our song", a song and music book for young people, Paul Hartung Verlag 1935, published by the National Socialist Teachers' Association Gau Hamburg
  • Portfolio with 4 handcuts by Paul Friedrichsen: Kinderland, 1935 ,
  • Cover illustration by Paul Friedrichsen: Hamburg / Chronik der Stadt Hamburg , texts by Johannes Saß and Hermann Okraß, foreword by Karl Kaufmann , Gauleiter, Curt Hermann Weise Verlag, 1939
  • Cover illustration by Paul Friedrichsen: Chronicle of the Reich Capital Texts Max Arendt and Alfred Karrasch , Curt Hermann Weise Verlag, 1940
  • Cover and book illustrations by Paul Friedrichsen: "Rolf and his friends" by Werner Demuth on school use in Hamburg, Westermann , 1966

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt 3./.4. October 1953
  2. ^ Manuscript of Ellen Peter-Sander's speech on October 31, 1993 at the opening of an exhibition on Friedrichsen's 100th birthday
  3. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt 22./23. March 1969
  4. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt, October 4, 1958
  5. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt 22./23. March 1969
  6. ↑ Ellen Peter-Sander; Hamburger Abendblatt October 4, 1958
personal data
SURNAME Friedrichsen, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist and cutter
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1969
Place of death Hamburg