Ernst Frick (painter)
Ernst Frick ( born September 21, 1881 in Knonau; † August 23, 1956 in Ascona ) was a Swiss painter.
Life
He was in his home town Knonau (Canton Zurich, Switzerland ), the fourth child of nine siblings ( eight boys, most recently a girl) born. His father had been the first from the family farm in Knonau. This farm belonged to the 15th century, the Frick family and is still home to relatives and managed (as of 2006). His mother came from Stein am Rhein ( Schaffhausen ). As Frick was 14 years old, his father suffered a fatal accident. The two youngest siblings were then stay with the mother. The eldest brother was already at this time on its own feet; the sixth and the seventh child were hired out to different places.
Frick was artistically inclined, but had to learn the lesson of a caster. As a trade unionist he came into contact with anarchism. From 1904 to 1906 he edited at times militant, and often prohibited journal wake-up call. A lung disease brought Ernst Frick in 1906 a cure in Ascona (Ticino), where he met with artists, anarchists, bohemians, etc..
In 1907 he participated in an attack on the Zurich cantonal police to free a jailed Russian anarchist and 1908 at a premeditated tram derailment ( Tram Depot ). As a result of work done for him was the perjury conviction until 1912, after which Frick had to serve a one-year prison sentence. At this time he was already father.
Since about 1909 he lived with Frieda Gross, born Schloffer ( from Graz), which, however, was with his friend Otto Gross (also from Graz) married and had with this one legitimate son. The connection between him and Frieda Gross was mutual agreement between the three parties, as they were in agreement that Ernst and Frieda would fit better. This connection sprang from three ( ie thus illegitimate ) daughters.
Presumably about 1917 Ernst Frick began to paint. He was taught by Arthur Segal in Ascona, the 1917 portrayed him.
Around 1920 Ernst and Frieda Gross parted and Ernst pulled with Margarita Marianne Fellerer ( from Linz) together. They built a house on the Monte Verità. In 1941 he married Margaret ( as her nickname) Fellerer. They had no children.
He painted in coal, oil and watercolor. His preference was for the nature and the animals, but also working people. In Ticino, offered themselves to him in the many pristine valleys and mountains whose inexhaustible treasury of motifs.
He was the group of artists devoted to Der Blaue Reiter. In 1924 he was a founding member of the artists' association, the Great Bear, which included some of which also known fellow artist Albert Kohler, Walter Helbig, Otto Niemeyer, Cordon McCouch, Werefkin and Otto van Rees, and exhibited several times in Ascona, Bern, Zurich and Berlin. 1941 The Great Bear was dissolved.
In Bosco / Gurin, the only still German -speaking (as of 2006) Walser village in Ticino, lying at about 1500 m, he found his second home ( " .. in Bosco / Gurin is one of nature" just " over " so Fricks own wording ). He knew also in the surrounding mountains, so he trapped a herd of cattle safely back resulted in an early onset of winter in the valley, for which he was the Bosco / Gurin deeply grateful.
By 1928, Ernst Frick discovered on Drume Balla (pronounced Balladrüm ), above Ascona, a Celtic settlement, whose research captured passionate to last him. Triggered by these archaeological amateur career, he began researching the original language. Minutely he put this on a card index and disassembled words to their roots.
Ernst Frick but also dealt with shell stones and in this context, monolithic door beams.
Ernst Frick was born with a sensitive character. He loved his daughters. His siblings, he was strongly connected life. Much evidence in addition to his love of nature and of its strong intellectual activity, which is why he is often mentioned as the most spiritual of all the painters associated with the then theater Ascona / Monte Verità. In the permanent exhibition at the museum since 2008 temporarily closed Casa Anatta, Ascona, his work is a space dedicated since 1981.