Fritz Vahle, Fischfangmaschine, 1967, Large Material Image

Fritz Vahle

Bochum-Linden 1913 - 1991 Bienenbüttel-Lüneburg

Fishing machine, 1967

Metal, wire, wood, oil

Verso signed, dated 1967 and titled

Size with frame: 83 x 116 cm

good condition

Authenticity is guaranteed.


Fritz Vahle was a student of Alexander Kanoldt. From 1945 to 1956 he was in Stendal freelance painter. He made it a number of views of the old Stendal, predominantly as commissions of the city council.

He taught since 1957 in Dortmund and in 1959 in Pforzheim to the local art colleges as lecturer or professor. In addition to his graphic and glass artistic works, he also emerged as a design draftsman for tapestries.

1954 issued by him on the 10th Triennale in Milan Carpet received the diplomas d'honneu.

1956 he moved to Darmstadt. Since 1970, member of the German Work Federation. Since 1978 freelance work in Darmstadt and Westermarkeldorf on the island of Fehmarn. 1978 Johann Merck honoring the city of Darmstadt.

Exhibitions (selection):
Cercle Volney, Paris; Exhibition of the German Art Council in Reykjavik, New Dehli; Exhibitions at the New Munich Collection in Houston, Texas; Cairo, Alexandria; Exhibitions at the Museum for Art and Industry, Hamburg; Bern, Winterthur; 10th and 11th Triennial, Milan; 2nd Biennale de la tapisserie, Lausanne; Facchetti Gallery, Paris 65; Collage 67, Munich; Karl-Ernst-Osthaus Museum, Hagen, 71Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, art rabbit Hanna Bekker vom Rath, Frankfurt am Main, Kunsthalle Darmstadt