FRITZ SCHIRRMACHER (Bartenstein 1893 - 1948 Hamburg)Let ther...

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€800

FRITZ SCHIRRMACHER
(Bartenstein 1893 - 1948 Hamburg)
Let there be light
watercolor/paper, 32.8 x 20.9 cm
signed Schirrmacher, titled it is light
provenance: Ketterer Auctions 2011, European private property

ESTIMATE °€ 800 - 1.500
STARTING PRICE °€ 800

Fritz Schirrmacher was born in Bartenstein near Königsberg. He is considered a representative of the "lost generation". After an apprenticeship as a decorative painter, he studied from 1919 to 1927 at the School of Applied Arts in Hamburg under Julius Wohlers and Willy von Beckerath. This was followed by a study trip to West Africa. Around 1930 he moved into a shared studio with the sculptors Herbert Mhe, Richard Haizmann, Karl Schümann, Paul Henle and the painter Otto Thämer. The subjects of his depictions are determined by his surroundings, often subjects such as newspaper women and craftsmen as well as figures from the milieu of St. Pauli. In 1933 Schirrmacher became a member of the Hamburg Artists' Association, then of the Hamburg Artists' Association of 1832. With Schirrmacher, the later painter Hansen-Bahia (Karl-Heinz Hansen) practiced "the Sunday painting". With strict objectivity, Schirrmacher shows the subjects in harmony and connectedness with their surroundings. In 1932/1933 Schirrmacher had a solo exhibition in the art collection of the city of Königsberg. Schirrmacher's expressive art was considered "degenerated" by the Nazis. In 1937, six of his paintings were confiscated and destroyed at the Kunsthalle Hamburg during the " Entartete Kunst" (Degenerated Art) campaign. After an early expressionist creative phase, in which he created woodcuts of fairy tales by the Romantic Wilhelm Hauff, by the Brothers Grimm and from The Thousand and One Nights, the artist turned to inner images. His works are characterized by a dualism of closeness to reality and fantastic mysticism. The title of the present work refers to the biblical passage "God said, Let there be light. And there was light." (Gen 1:3)

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