Waldemar Fritsch (sculptor)

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Waldemar Fritsch (born March 23, 1909 in Altrohlau ; † July 13, 1978 in Ansbach ) was a Sudeten German porcelain sculptor who lived and worked in Ansbach after his expulsion from West Bohemia in 1946 until his death and who ran the art school there from 1949 to 1953 .

Life

Waldemar Fritsch was born in 1909 as the tenth and last child in Altrohlau, which was part of the Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy at the time, into a farming family. The father worked as a fiaker in Karlsbad until he was 75 . After completing elementary and community school, Fritsch began training as a porcelain lathe operator and foundryman in the “Viktoria” porcelain factory in Altrohlau. The Eger basin around Karlsbad and Teplitz-Schönau were considered important locations for the porcelain and ceramics industry. In Karlsbad (since 1925) and Teplitz-Schönau (1875) there were technical schools for the technical and artistic training of ceramists , in Altrohlau porcelain has been produced since 1811 .

His further path led him via the Fischern Porcelain School (from 1926) to the Prague School of Applied Arts (from 1929). During his time in Karlovy Vary, he drew attention to himself through the artistic quality of small sculptures such as the terracotta relief "Youth", a group of kittens and chickens and a lying wolfhound. In Prague he created porcelain sculptures of St. Sebastian, a Loreley, a cockatoo, ball throwers and a Maria with child and sheep.

In 1934 Waldemar Fritsch got an assistant position at the State College for Ceramics in Teplitz-Schönau, whose school management he took over in autumn 1938. In 1939, a professorship for applied plastic that had been offered to him led him back to the State College for the Porcelain Industry in Karlsbad. After denunciations, Fritsch was imprisoned by the Gestapo in Dresden and Berlin in 1939 and after his release in 1940 he was banned from practicing his profession. In 1943 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht .

In 1946 he moved with his 80-year-old parents to south-west Germany, where he found a new home in Ansbach from 1947 after stops in Stuttgart-Wendlingen and Ellingen. A period of great creativity followed, some of his porcelain sculptures found a permanent home in the Ansbach City Museum, which Waldemar Fritsch dedicated a special exhibition to in 1963. Waldemar Fritsch is buried in the cemetery of the St. Lambertus Church in Ansbach-Eyb .

Works (selection)

(approximately in chronological order)

Porphyry lying gravestone east of the Lambertus Church in the Ansbach-Eyb cemetery
  • Scalare
  • Egerland farmers couple
  • Girl with the Carnation
  • Holy Family on the run
  • Floating
  • Blessing Christ
  • Pensive youth
  • Venus in the arbor
  • Lying youth
  • Lying girl
  • Epiphany
  • Listening
  • Christ head
  • Young man head
  • Allegory of Karlovy Vary
  • Day, night and morning
  • Song of the night
  • Ecce homo
  • Xuchitl
  • Ixcauatzin

literature

  • Xaver Schaffer: Waldemar Fritsch: porcelain, ceramics, plastic. Delp, 1961. (16 pages)
  • Waldemar Fritsch: porcelain, ceramics, plastic. Delpsche Verlagbuchhandlung, 1961. (16 pages)
  • Waldemar Fritsch, Georg Lengl: The face: portraits and compositional images. H. Carl, 1969. (15 pages)
  • Adolf Lang: Waldemar Fritsch: Nature and Fantastic; Plastic, portrait, porcelain. Ansbacher Museumsverlag, 1977. (84 pages)
  • Justin Siegert: Waldemar Fritsch: in memory of the Egerland porcelain maker. Duppel, 1980. (11 pages)
  • Waldemar Fritsch, Lothar Henning: Nature and fantasy: plastic, portrait, porcelain. Ansbacher Museumsverlag, 1983. (100 pages)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d biography of Waldemar Fritsch by Adolf Lang, at www.sudetendeutsche-akademie.eu. (PDF; 218 kB) Retrieved July 28, 2013 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Article by Porzellangezwitscher from June 10, 2011 on www.porzellan-selb.de. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 14, 2014 ; Retrieved July 28, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.porzellan-selb.de
personal data
SURNAME Fritsch, Waldemar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sudeten German porcelain sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Altrohlau
DATE OF DEATH July 13, 1978
Place of death Ansbach