#fritz burger-mühlfeld

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Fritz Burger-Mühlfeld (1882-1969), 'Sirenenlied' (Siren Song), ''Jugend'', 1918 Source

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Fritz Burger-Mühlfeld - Houses in Dieterichstraße, 1925

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“Sirenenlied” (”Siren Song”) ~ “Jugend Magazine” ~ 1918 ~ Fritz Burger-Mühlfeld (German, 1882-1969)

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MWW Artwork of the Day (3/10/17) Grethe Jürgens (German, 1899-1981) Self-Portrait (1928) Oil on canvas Sprengel Museum, Hannover

"It appears to me to be a barbarian view of art not to consider it to be an obligation, but rather merely a means to greater comfort and greater pleasure. Art, a kind of intellectual whipped cream, is plopped onto the cultural pudding. Art is the coat one adorns and warms oneself with, or it is only a decorative splodge of color on the wall. In reality, one would gain much more if one could decide on a completely different view of art -- namely taking an active part instead of only enjoying it." -- Grethe Jürgens

Grethe Jürgens, the daughter of a school teacher, was born in Holzhausen near Osnabrück in northern Germany and brought up in Wilhelmshaven on the North Sea. In 1919, she went to the Hannover School for Artisans and Crafts for three years. Probably under the influence of their revered teacher, Fritz Burger-Mühlfeld, she and fellow-students Gerta Overbeck, Erich Wegner, Ernst Thoms and others formed a closely-knit, politically left-wing and generally anti-establishment group.

In one of the articles she wrote for Der Wachsbogen, Jürgens explained the philosophy of her art: by painting pots, rubbish heaps, common objects, workers, mothers, children, prostitutes, beggars or tramps in houses, vehicles or landscapes, she was not aiming to depict "interesting types" or to appeal to a social conscience. Rather, she found in all these subjects the strongest expression of her surroundings and her times. The human face was preeminent in her art; landscape and cityscape received less attention. However, in the early 1950s, Jürgens abandoned her credo and turned to creating a body of abstract drawings.

 (Bio from the Galerie St. Etienne website)

A selection of this artist's work appears in the MWW exhibit/gallery: * Weimar II: A Society on the Brink

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Emmy  (artist’s wife)     -    Fritz Burger-Mühlfeld, 1933

German,1882-1969

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