Fritz Puempin

Fritz Pümpin ( born March 29, 1901 in Gelterkinden; † July 5, 1972 ) was a Swiss painter.

Life

After primary school Gelterkinden he went to visit the school district in Böckten. In 1916 he participated in a Welsh country residence time and drawing lessons from the painter Janet in Colombier. After his return he went to visit a business school in Basle to become a merchant.

In 1919, his entry into the paternal wine shop. In between was a temporary visit to the trade school in Basel and a study of exhibitions and museums at home and abroad. He also dealt with the early history of his community. He discovered the Celtic pottery village " Sissiacum ". Fritz Pümpin was a member of the cantonal antiquity Commission Basel-Land.

In 1936 a marriage with Rosli Gerster from Gelterkinden. The marriage produced two sons Volkmar ( b. 1937 ) and Cuno Pümpin ( b. 1939 ). Together, the couple ventured to build a exclusive painter existence. Between 1939 and 1945, Fritz Pümpin was armed soldier of the Assistance Service in the Swiss Border Guard. It created a number of soldiers images. Among other things, he recorded the arrival of the Allies at the Swiss border at Basel, the passage of Alsatian children in Switzerland and the bombardment of Basel in March 1945.

After 1945 he painted in his Baselbieter home in oil and pastel and made study trips to France, Italy, Spain and Holland. Landscapes and peasant villages are at the center of artistic creation by Fritz Pümpin.