Hannes Schultze-Froitzheim (1904 - 1995)

Hannes Schultze-Froitzheim

Hannes Schultze-Froitzheim, birth name Hans Werner Schultze, was a German painter and graphic artist.

Hannes Schultze-Froitzheim learned to draw from Max Bernuth, Heinrich Phieler and Hans Seiß in evening and Sunday classes at the Elberfeld Craftsmen's and Arts and Crafts School from 1920 onwards, in parallel with a commercial apprenticeship. In 1926 he transferred to the Düsseldorf Art Academy.

Schultze-Froitzheim sought the interplay of form and colour in his works. He examined the reciprocal relationship of forms to each other and often reduced them to the purely geometric body. He was also preoccupied with the interaction between light and dark forms as well as round and pointed shapes.

His stays by the sea in Scandinavia and Italy further inspired him to study and experiment with different forms. His late work is dominated by his so-called "compositions". In his mixed media he turns away completely from the figurative and uses different materials to depict the interplay between form and colour on the surface.