Fritz Heinemann (artist)

Fritz Heinemann ( born January 1, 1864 in Altena, † December 1, 1932 in Berlin) was a German sculptor.

Life

Heinemann attended from 1883 to 1886, the Nuremberg art school, then moved to 1889 to the Berlin Academy of Arts, where Albert Wolff, Fritz Schaper and Gerhard Janensch were among his teachers. In 1888 he presented the first time at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition. From 1889 to 1905 Heinemann worked as a teacher at the educational establishment of the Museum of Decorative Arts Berlin. Study trips led him to Paris (1891 ) and Rome ( 1892).

Heinemann lived around 1912 in what was then Berlin -Friedrich field in Cecilienallee 4 He was married to Alice Tonn († 1951), daughter of a Captain from Nakel. The marriage produced two daughters Edit and Alix emerged. The marriage was divorced in 1902.

Fritz Heinemann was buried in the cemetery Dahlem. His unadorned grave stone has been preserved.

Awards

Fritz Heinemann was some support orders, including the Red Eagle Order IV class. At the World Exhibition in St. Louis ( 1904), he won a bronze medal.

Services

Heinemann was one of those artists who have discontinued from the time the prevailing neo-baroque by Reinhold Bega and its students with a tectonic language of form in the sense of Adolf von Hildebrand. Some figures are close to the work of Auguste Rodin. His work includes almost the entire sculptural spectrum: monuments, tombs, genre figures, busts and small bronzes.

Works

Also:

  • On the dune
  • Berlin Blumenfee
  • Ausgeträumt
  • Duck
  • Eagle
  • Athletes joke
  • Spring
  • Oyster seller
  • Boy with mirror, 12.5 cm, cast Gladbeck
  • Kaufmann, 32.5 cm, cast Gladbeck
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