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Original etching by Fritz Pauli. 56/200 edition, signed by the artist. 50 x 39 cm, in fine condition. Fritz Eduard Pauli (born May 7, 1891 in Bern , September 3 , 1968 in Cavigliano TI ) was a Swiss painter , etcher and illustrator . Fritz Pauli was born in Bern, the second son of bank officials Ernst Friedrich Emanuel Pauli and Emilie Pauli-Bodmer. In 1906 he left high school and began an apprenticeship as a flat painter. In 1907 he attended evening courses in etching at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Bern. After his brief employment with the decorative painter Otto Haberer-Sinner, he made his first prints in his own studio in his parents' house. Albert Welti acquired the sheet Susann I at the Kunstverein's Christmas exhibition in Bern in 1909 . The well-known artist offered Pauli to take him on as a student. At that time, numerous artists met in Welti's house in Melchenbühl near Bern. Ernst Kreidolf , who worked with Welti on the Landsgemeinde mural in the Council of States Hall, Paul Klee , the composer Othmar Schoeck , the writer Hermann Hesse and the poet and art critic Joseph Viktor Widmann frequented this house. Through Welti, Pauli was admitted to Peter Halm 's composition class at the Munich Art Academyrecorded. In between, he completed recruit school and returned to Munich in 1911. Also through Welti, Pauli portrayed the landowner Franz Rose and his nephew, the art historian Hans Rose, in Doehlau near Königsberg in 1912. In 1913 Pauli began to work in his painting studio in Munich. In 1910 he received the federal scholarship, which was awarded for the first time, and also an award from the Royal Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. In 1922 Pauli married the textile draftswoman Jenny Bruppacher, after her death in 1937 in a second marriage in 1940 the seamstress and gilder Elsi Meyerhofer. Until his final settlement in Cavigliano in 1935, Pauli's life was characterized by many journeys, at the same time he also had a studio in Zurich. [1] In 1918 he stayed in the Lötschental and from 1918 on various occasions in Fex , where he painted landscape watercolors. From 1921 to 1925 he spent the summer months on Lake Zug. In 1925 he met Ernst Ludwig Kirchner in Davos . In the same year he traveled to Tunisia and Algeria with Karl Otto Hügin and Konrad Schmid (1899 1979) . In 1926 he lived in Collioure in southern France and from 1928 to 1932 in Paris. In Amsterdamhe rented a farmhouse in 1931. In the same year he showed his paintings at the Glarner Kunstverein [2] for the first time. The two artists Johann Robert Schürch and Ignaz Epper and the writer Jakob Bührer belonged to the closer circle of friends . In 1951 he wrote about his friend that it was his "open commitment to people, their disposition, dependence and limitations" that particularly touched him about his art. The Zurich collector Kurt Sponagel also belonged to his closer circle of friends . In the 1920s Pauli corresponded frequently with the Baden doctor and art collector Walter Minnich , [3] whose collection is in the Kunstmuseum Luzern . In later years there was a close friendship with the painter, etcher and teacherPaul Freiburghaus . After Pauli's death, Freiburghaus published his graphic work. [4] Even as a young artist, Pauli attracted attention with his prints. In 1914, for example, the Self-Portrait etching was published at the XII. National Art Exhibition of Recognition. His early etchings and woodcuts from the 1910s and 1920s are among the most important expressionist positions in Switzerland. [5] In 1926 August Klipstein published the first graphic catalogue. Appreciation In his early years, Fritz Pauli made a contribution to 20th-century art with his etchings and aquatint paintings. [6] Up until the early 1930s, his paintings had an expressionist attitude and, influenced by changing life situations and new acquaintances, changed into a realistic , representational, easier-to-understand style. As with many Swiss painters of.
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