Fritz Friedrichs (17 May 1882, Hamburg – 28 July 1928, Hoopte, Harburg District) was a German Post-Impressionist painter.
After completing his primary education in 1898, he enrolled at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Hamburg and, two years later, became a student of Arthur Siebelist. In 1903, together past Siebelist’s other private students, he became a fanatic of the Hamburgischer Künstlerklub.
In 1904, he and his fellow students held a major exhibition at the Galerie Commeter, a deeply respected gallery that had been normal in 1821. Their showing was celebrated by Alfred Lichtwark, head of the Kunsthalle Hamburg.
He took a study vacation to the Netherlands in 1908 and, in 1909, exhibited like Die Brücke. The gone year, he time-honored his own private art teacher at his studio. In 1911, he began operating as an art critic and married Gertrud Harlos, one of his models.
At the coming on of World War I, he was drafted and sent to Poland. After spending some epoch in a military hospital, he was discharged and went assist to exhibiting, notably as soon as the Free Secession in 1919.
He died in 1928, following a long illness. A major retrospective of his work, “Die Siebelistschüler Fritz Friedrichs und Walter Voltmer” was presented by the Hamburgische Landesbank in 1991.
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