Fritz Stuckenberg

Fritz Stuckenberg ( born August 16, 1881 in Munich, † May 18, 1944 in Füssen ) was an expressionist painter.

Life and work

Friedrich Bernhard Stuckenberg was born on August 16, 1881 in Munich, was already twelve years old to Delmenhorst, where his father took over the commercial management of the Hansa- Linoleumwerke. His uncle was the painter Bernhard Wiegandt. After dropping architectural studies and after cadet years in Weimar and Munich, he moved in 1907 to Paris, attracted its leading role as a cultural capital of the 19th and early 20th century artists of all nations. Fritz Stuckenberg Also found in Paris artistic inspiration and the "new ", the liberation to light and color. He belonged to the circle of the " Café du Dôme " and placed in the large Parisian " salon" and galleries. In the press he found multiple appreciative mention.

Starting in Berlin in 1912, he was discovered in 1916 by Herwarth Walden and integrated into the storm - circle, where he used closer contacts especially Georg Muche, Arnold Topp, Walter Mehring and Mynona. Disappointed by the development, in 1919 he broke the contract with Walden and joined the Workers' Art by Walter Gropius and Bruno Taut, later, the November Group. Many " storm " exhibitions as well as participating in the "First International Dada Fair ", the recording in the Third Bauhaus wallet and many more exhibitions in important galleries occupy its place in the former artistic scene. In major German and American collections represent his work in Germany, the USA and Moscow as the one of the seminal representatives of the European avant-garde was shown.

Forced by severe illness and economic hardship, Fritz Stuckenberg returned in 1921 to Delmenhorst back. Here, in the " dark Delmenhorst " ( letter to the Flemish Dadaists Paul van Ostaijen ) under increasingly politically and personally press their conditions, he developed the constructive and spiritual late work. In 1927 he put together with the group of artists from the rock at the Municipal Art Gallery Bochum.

In the Nazi " cleansing operations " were all his pictures removed or destroyed in possession of the museum. In 1937, the work " street with houses " ( 1921) was shown in the exhibition " Degenerate Art". In 1941 he moved to the foot over and died 1944. Fifty years almost forgotten Stuckenberg was rediscovered in 1993 with a retrospective in Delmenhorst, Berlin and Neuss as part of the artistic avant-garde of modernism. His work is collected mainly in the Municipal Gallery Delmenhorst and maintained, two of his paintings ( a Marie portrait and " Christ walking on the sea" ), which were in 1908 emerged, hanging since 1997 in the Delmenhorster city church where they until 1947 part had been the altar. A permanent exhibition of the "masterpieces of the collection Stuckenberg " has been opened in Delmenhorst on 31 October 2008.