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August Friedrich Overbeck, known as Fritz (15 September 1869 in
Bremen Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (german: Stadtgemeinde Bremen, ), is the capital of the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (''Freie Hansestadt Bremen''), a two-city-state consis ...
– 8 June 1909 in
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) was a German painter and engraver.


Biography

He was the son of the Technical Director at
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. After graduating from the local Gymnasium, he attended the
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from 1889 to 1893. Among his teachers there were
Eugen Dücker Eugen Gustav Dücker (also ''Eugène Gustav Dücker''; , in Arensburg (now Kuressaare, Estonia) – 6 December 1916, in Düsseldorf) was a Baltic German painter, in the Romantic atyle, associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule. Biograph ...
and Peter Janssen. In 1894, he was persuaded by
Otto Modersohn Friedrich Wilhelm Otto Modersohn (22 February 1865, Soest – 10 March 1943, Rotenburg) was a German landscape painter. He was a co-founder of the Art Colony at Worpswede. Life In 1884, he began his studies at the Art Academy of Düsseldorf ...
to set up a studio at the Artists' Colony in
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, where he became fascinated with painting the desolate moorlands. In 1897, he married one of his students, Hermine Rohte, who had sought him out as a teacher after seeing an exhibition of his works at the Munich Glaspalast. She would also achieve some fame as a painter. Their son, , was a noted botanist. Around 1900, he became one of the many artists who were selected in a series of contests to design
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s for the chocolate-maker Ludwig Stollwerck. In 1905, after Hermine was diagnosed with tuberculosis, he and his family moved to Vegesack, where he specialized in painting the beaches and sand dunes. He later became a member of the
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. In 1909 he died, suddenly, from a stroke. He was buried at the Waller Friedhof in Bremen. Hermine survived her illness and devoted much of her time to promoting his work. In 1990, his granddaughter Gertrud established the "Fritz and Hermine Overbeck Foundation", to preserve and publicize his work. In 2010, she was awarded the ''
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'' for her efforts.''Gertrud Overbeck mit dem Bundesverdienstkreuz ausgezeichnet''
senatspressestelle.bremen.de, retrieved 26 April 2011.


Overbeck's use of primary colors

File:Abend im Moor.jpg, Evening in the Moor (1896) File:Fritz-overbeck-abendsonne.jpg, The Setting Sun (c.1900) File:Bluehendes buchweizenfeld.jpg, Flowering Buckwheat Field (c.1900)


Writings

* ''Ein Brief aus Worpswede.'' in: ''Kunst für Alle'' XI (1895/96), S. 20–24.


References


Further reading

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Rainer Maria Rilke René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926), shortened to Rainer Maria Rilke (), was an Austrian poet and novelist. He has been acclaimed as an idiosyncratic and expressive poet, and is widely recogni ...
: ''Worpswede. Fritz Mackensen, Otto Modersohn, Fritz Overbeck, Hans am Ende, Heinrich Vogeler.'' Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld und Leipzig 1902
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; Neuausgabe: Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1987 und öfter, * Sigrid Weltge-Wortmann: ''Die ersten Maler in Worpswede. Eine Biographie des Künstlerdorfes und der Maler Fritz Mackensen, Otto Modersohn, Fritz Overbeck, Hans am Ende, Heinrich Vogeler und Paula Modersohn-Becker.'' Erweiterte Ausgabe. Worpsweder Verlag, Bremen 2003, . * Katja Pourshirazi, Antje Modersohn and Gertrud Overbeck (Eds.): ''Otto Modersohn und Fritz Overbeck. Der Briefwechsel'', Wienand, 2014, .


External links

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Overbeck-Museum, Bremen
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Rainer Maria Rilke René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926), shortened to Rainer Maria Rilke (), was an Austrian poet and novelist. He has been acclaimed as an idiosyncratic and expressive poet, and is widely recogni ...
on Overbec

{{DEFAULTSORT:Overbeck, Fritz 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German male painters 20th-century German painters 20th-century German male artists Artists from Bremen 1869 births 1909 deaths