Friedrich Leonhard (Fritz) Heubner (1886 - 1974)
Friedrich Leonhard (Fritz) Heubner
Friedrich Leonhard Heubner was a German commercial artist, painter, draftsman and illustrator. In 1914 he was a founding member of the artist group The Six. In 1916 he was represented in the Ernst Arnold Gallery at the "Second Exhibition of Dresden Artists Who Are in Army Service". From 1920 he was a member of the Munich Secession and regularly exhibited there. Heubner quickly freed himself from Munich Art Nouveau and developed his own sweeping style of drawing. There were caricatures for the youth, the gazebo and the Simplicissimus. Heubner first appeared as a poster designer. In the 1920s he turned more to book illustration and created etchings and lithographs. In his paintings of the 1920s, which he created primarily while traveling, he came to an expressive view of the landscape. His drawings, which show the destroyed Munich and its reconstruction from 1945 onwards, are of cultural-historical importance, many of which are now in the collection of the Munich City Museum.
| Date and place of birt: | 24 december 1886, Dresden, Germany |
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| Date and place of death: | 26 september 1974, Munich, Germany |
| Nationality: | Germany |
| Period of activity: | XX century |
| Specialization: | Artist, Draftsman, Illustrator, Landscape painter, Painter, Portraitist, Posterist |
| Art school / group: | Die Sechs, Munich Secession |
| Genre: | Caricature, Cityscape, Genre art, Landscape painting, Portrait, Still life |
| Art style: | Modern art, Realism |
| Technique: | Book Graphic, Charcoal, Etching, Gouache, Hand graphic, Lithography, Oil, Oil on canvas, Pencil, Watercolor |
