Karl Hanns Christian Pit von Frihling Art for Sale and Sold Prices

b. 1919 - d. 2011

Karl Hanns Christian "Pit" by Frihling (born October 18, 1919 in Hamburg , † March 27, 2011 ) was a German painter , graphic artist and watercolorist .
Photo of the artist, 2009

After training in craftsmanship and military service , Frihling studied at the Landeskunstschule in Hamburg from 1945 to 1948. a. with Professors Alfred Mahlau and Karl Kaschak . From 1957 joined a semester with Gerhard Fietz at the same university. From 1958 to 1968 operated by Frihling in Hamburg and on the Dutch island of Terschelling a state-recognized art school . [2]
Selfportrait, pencil, 1946

In the years 1951 to 1958 took by Frihling study trips , which u. a. to Holland , France , Italy and Switzerland . From about 1980, created after a trip to Greece , many mostly small-format works as Gouachebilder on gold, silver and copper ground. His works have won several awards. His permanent residence remained his native city of Hamburg, to which he felt closely associated.
Memberships

Pit von Frihling has been a member of the professional association of visual artists , section Hamburg since 1968. In addition, he was a member of the Masonic Lodge Roland in Hamburg for over 40 years; the lodge shows works of her brother von Frihling on her homepage. [5]
Personal

Frihling's Pit was an Evangelical-Lutheran denomination . His daughter Corinna Schroeder-von Frihling (* 1942) is a freelance graphic artist and lives on the west coast of Ireland .
Plant

Pit von Frihlings work includes thousands of sketches, watercolors, paintings and works for churches. He was a "landscape painter, but not at all in the sense of the lovable little masters of the late 19th century" [6] . The versatile artistic spectrum includes abstract and figural works as well as works with sand and metal [2] . He "does not work in front of the motive. The pictures are only created in the silence of the studio " [6] .
Collaboration

In the years from 1958 to 1968, a fruitful cooperation with the Protestant church , for which he took over the artistic design of 20 modern churches fell. In addition, created by Frihling works of art in public space or as contributions to art on construction of public buildings "in wood, metal, glass, textile". In the year 1975 he was involved in the film Views - German landscape painting by Dürer to today , which was produced on behalf of the Federal Press Office Bonn . [3]
Painting
Dune landscape on Amrum, watercolor, 1983

In his youth, Frihling created paintings in conventional painting style in oil, from which time first pencil sketches, for example self-portraits , were preserved. Pit von Frihlings Hauptwerk is all about North German and Dutch landscape, but it was less important to create the image of a particular landscape. Rather, he devoted himself to the typical geological nature of his subject and incorporated the light and its creative power into the composition. The artist emerges as a "landscape painter," who primarily acquires new aspects of North German motifs such as the sea , mudflats , skies, and coasts , "and who" ultimately reveals only the image of his idea from the world of the spiritual. " [1]

Here he penetrates "in his pictures in the depths, he feels geological , morphological , rises in the sphere of the meteorological ", whereby "primeval landscapes, the sea, the bogs , large forests and high mountains particularly fascinate him" [3] ] . Pit von Frihling shows in his landscapes "a strong emotional side", which corresponds to a "inclinations to the mystical in a positive sense". [6] As a rule, man does not appear as an object of the picture ; "no human representation is required where everything is so intended for man". [6]
Working for churches

His Antependien as a substance application for altars and pulpits in churches also occupy a separate area in his work. In addition, he created models for crosses , turrets, altars ( chalices and candlesticks ) and candlesticks, as well as lights in churches, which - along with his drawings - were used as designs for the performing arts and crafts . [4] An overview of this part of his work is still missing.