Fritz Bleyl

Fritz Bleyl (full name: Hilmar Friedrich Wilhelm Bleyl; born October 8, 1880 in Zwickau, † August 19 1966 in Bad Iburg ) was a German architect and painter of Expressionism.

Life and work

Together with Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Bleyl began in 1901 to study architecture at the Technical University of Dresden. On June 7, 1905, Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt- Rottluff and Fritz Bleyl founded the artist group "bridge". Short term Bleyl also pursued the objective of free artistic existence, but this was in 1907 already on to become a teacher of drawing and marry.

Bleyl retired again in 1907 from the group and settled in 1909 in Freiberg down. In the years 1910 to 1912 he worked in the office of the Dresden architect Ernst Kühn and then to 1914 in a similar function in Rostock. 1916 ended successfully Bleyl his doctorate in Cornelius Gurlitt in Dresden.

In 1919 he became a teacher in 1940 to the inspector at the State Building School Berlin. After the war he found work as a study and building officer at the Berlin Baugewerkschule.

Lived between 1948 and 1949 and worked Bleyl in his hometown and then settled in Knechtsteden in the Rhineland. In 1952 he went for five years after Schlebusch near Cologne. 1958 settled in Lugano Bleyl down and remained there until his death.