Fritz Tröger
Alltag & Sachlichkeit

20. January 2018 — 10. March 2018

  • Fritz Tröger – „Fernsehantennen über den Dächern“
  • Fritz Tröger – „Rote Sonne über dem Dach“
  • Fritz Tröger – „Baumstämme im Walde“
  • Fritz Tröger – „Autofahrer“
  • Fritz Tröger – „Lausitzer Landschaft mit Telegrafenmast“
  • Fritz Tröger – „Im Autobus“
  • Fritz Tröger – „Stopfabend (Selbst)“
  • Fritz Tröger – „Erleuchtetes Haus in der Vollmondnacht“
  • Fritz Tröger – „Zeitungsleser (Vater)“
  • Fritz Tröger – „Klavierspielerin“
  • Fritz Tröger – „Frau beim Nähen“
  • Fritz Tröger – „Selbstbildnis“
  • Fritz Tröger – „Dora Frohberg“
  • Fritz Tröger – „Schlafende“
  • Fritz Tröger – „Baum“
  • Fritz Tröger – „Elbtallandschaft bei Dresden“
  • Fritz Tröger – „Straßenbahnschaffner“
  • Fritz Tröger – „Am Morgen auf der Kippe“
  • Fritz Tröger – „Untergehende Sonne überm Waldteich“
  • Fritz Tröger – „Selbstbildnis“
  • Fritz Tröger – „Streuobstwiese im Oktober“
  • Fritz Tröger – „Wiesenweg unter Obstbäumen“
  • Fritz Tröger – „Telegrafenmast“
  • Fritz Tröger – „Blockwärter (Reichsbahn)“
  • Fritz Tröger – „Arbeiter mit Waschschüssel“
  • Fritz Tröger – „Hafeneinfahrt Sassnitz“
  • Fritz Tröger – „Akkordeon spielender Junge“
  • Fritz Tröger – „Bauernhaus im Schnee“
  • Fritz Tröger – „Sonniger Novembertag“
  • Fritz Tröger – „Kleines Haus am Wald I“
  • Fritz Tröger – „Baumgruppe“
  • Fritz Tröger – „Gestutzte Bäume“
  • Fritz Tröger – „Musikserenade im Zwinger“
  • Fritz Tröger – „Selbstbildnis“
  • Fritz Tröger – „Stillleben mit Blumentopf“
  • Fritz Tröger – „Stillleben mit Kaktus“
  • Fritz Tröger – „Stallgebäude“
  • Fritz Tröger – „Große Remise“
  • Fritz Tröger – „Christa lesend“
  • Fritz Tröger – „Nähende alte Frau (Mutter)“
  • Fritz Tröger – „Elbzille“
  • Fritz Tröger – „Alter Bergmann“
  • Fritz Tröger – „Wintermorgen“

Fritz Tröger

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Böhlitz, Michael / Himmel, Anja (Hrsg.). – „Fritz Tröger. Alltag und Sachlichkeit”.

2018. Galerie Himmel (Eigenverlag), Dresden. – Ausstellungskatalog, von Fritz Tröger. – 21 x 21 cm (Format).

8°, Broschur, 136 S., 123 Abb. - Katalog zur Ausstellung ″Fritz Tröger - Alltag und Sachlichkeit″ in der Galerie Himmel in Dresden, 20.1.-10.3.2018. - Geleitwort von Anja Himmel, einführender Text von Michael Böhlitz. Ausführlicher Katalogteil mit wesentlichen Arbeiten des Künstlers. - Erstausgabe, neu.

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Introduction

Those who knew Fritz Tröger speak today with great respect of him and his consistently pursued artistic path. In the 1960s and 1970s, he was a role model for young artists. Similar to Curt Querner or Hermann Glöckner, he was admired as a painter who, with perseverance and consistency, was able to provide stability and orientation in a time of political influence. Alltag und Sachlichkeit – Tröger adhered to these premises of his painting, developed in the 1920s, for decades, so that they can be used to describe his life's work. He was interested in simple subjects that interested him: domestic scenes, the everyday work of craftsmen in their workshops, and later, increasingly, workers and farmers in the modern working world. To this end, he developed a style that generally belonged to Neue Sachlichkeit but was otherwise idiosyncratic, with a rather constructivist- classical character, in which line and surface determine the pictorial effect. In his conscientious and objective treatment of everyday objects, people were always at the centre of his work. Even during his studies, Tröger was intensively involved with portraiture. However, he never painted prominent clients. In his characteristic blend of sober observation and social sensitivity, he portrayed people from modest backgrounds, initially relatives, friends and fellow artists such as Erich Fraaß and Bernhard Kretzschmar, and later farmers and labourers. At the beginning of the 1930s, his interest in the technical world of objects, architecture, Engineering construction and machinery intensified, which was reflected in pictures of cargo ships and a cycle of so-called »barracks pictures« of Dresden's Albertstadt district. His fascination with technology never left him. After an interruption forced by internal emigration to Lusatia, he created pictures of machine halls, agricultural machinery and large-scale technology in open-cast mining, not to mention the antenna Pictures of the 1970s. Structuring technical Elements such as telephone poles and power lines became characteristic of his landscape paintings. Since 1936, with his retreat to his country studio in Laske, Sorbia, Tröger concentrated more and more on working on paper. Stylistically, he seemed to strike a more moderate tone. The radicalism of the panel paintings created around 1930, which reminiscent of wood inlays in their austere flatness and muted colours, finds no direct counterpart in the pen and ink drawings, watercolours and oil pastels. The formulations appear milder, less harsh and dry, the colour tone more luminous and delicately refined. His signature style remains recognisable here too, however, as his desire for form compelled him to reduce, to limit himself to inconspicuous motifs, to isolate the objects in his paintings, to simplify the outlines and internal lines, and to concentrate on a reduced colour palette. With a calm, cohesive expression, Tröger strove for the ideal of a »new classicism«, a classicism inspired by the archaic art of Egypt and Greece as well as Japanese woodblock prints and the painting of the Italian Proto-Renaissance and Early Renaissance.