# Fritz Quant > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Fritz_Quant > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Fritz_Quant.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Quant > Source revision: 1279872499 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|German painter (1888–1933)}} {{no footnotes|date=November 2016}} thumb|200px|Self-portrait (1908) '''Franz Xaver Friedrich Quant''', known as '''Fritz''' (18 February 1888 in [Trier](/source/Trier) – 3 November 1933 in Trier) was a German painter, graphic artist and designer. == Biography == His father was a master [cooper](/source/cooper_(profession)) and innkeeper. He began his studies with an apprenticeship to the church painter, Peter Thomas (1854–1935). In 1908, he passed the journeyman's examination and found employment as a "painter's assistant" to {{ill|August Trümper|de}} at the Trier Arts and Crafts School. Four years later, he enlisted in the Army, but served only a short time before being discharged due to a chronic illness. thumb|215px|left|View of Trier from the West He then continued his education at the [Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst](/source/Hochschule_f%C3%BCr_Grafik_und_Buchkunst_Leipzig) in Leipzig, where he studied etching with [Alois Kolb](/source/Alois_Kolb). He was there from 1915 to 1918, when he returned to Trier and took over the painting class from Trümper, who had been drafted into the [Landsturm](/source/Landsturm). By special permission of [Richard Riemerschmid](/source/Richard_Riemerschmid), Director of the Arts and Crafts School in Munich, he was able to spend the years 1920–1922 studying with [Robert Engels](/source/Robert_Engels_(artist)) and [Adolf Schinnerer](/source/Adolf_Schinnerer). It was then he developed a style that combined [Post-Impressionism](/source/Post-Impressionism) with [Expressionism](/source/Expressionism). In 1925, he got married and settled in Trier, where he worked as a free-lance artist until 1930, when he returned to the Arts and Crafts School as a teacher. During those years he was, however, well-connected; belonging to numerous local and regional professional associations and art societies. His "View of Trier from the West" was presented as a gift to Chancellor [Gustav Stresemann](/source/Gustav_Stresemann). In addition to his paintings, he illustrated travel brochures, provided drawings to newspapers, created advertisements (mostly for wine and tobacco) and produced designs for the local [Notgeld](/source/Notgeld) during the period of [hyperinflation](/source/Hyperinflation_in_the_Weimar_Republic). In his last years, as his health declined, he devoted himself mostly to interior design; notably the Town Hall in [Wittlich](/source/Wittlich). Shortly after the [Nazi takeover](/source/Nazi_takeover) (just before his death) he was admitted to the Trier branch of the "Reich Cartel of Fine Arts" and given a license to exhibit. In 1959, his widow wrote a will leaving his works to the City of Trier. After her death in 1976, over 400 works were transferred to the {{ill|Stadtmuseum Simeonstift|de}}. A street in Trier has been named after him. ==Selected works== Fritz quant moselkran.jpg|Crane on the [Moselle](/source/Moselle) (etching) Quant Muenchener.Fasching.jpg|[Fasching](/source/Fasching) in Munich Notgeld fritz quant 10 millionen mark.jpg|Ten Million Mark Notgeld Quant Bernkastel.jpg|[Bernkastel](/source/Bernkastel) Mattheis Fritz Quant.jpg|[St. Matthias' Abbey](/source/St._Matthias'_Abbey) (crayon and pencil drawing) == Sources == * Elisabeth Dühr (ed.), Christine Beier and Heinrich Nebgen: ''Fritz Quant (1888–1933) – Ein Trierer Maler und Grafiker'' (exhibition catalog), Stadtmuseum Simeonstift, 1994, {{ISBN|3-930866-01-3}}. * Matthias Mehs: "Fritz Quant als Maler seiner Heimat". In: ''Trierische Heimat'', Vol.10 (1933/34), pp.73–75. * Reinhard Heß: "Fritz Quant, der Maler". In: ''Neues Trierisches Jahrbuch 1967'', pp. 53–56. * Dieter Ahrens: "Das Werk Fritz Quants im Städtischen Museum Simeonstift". In: ''Neues Trierisches Jahrbuch 1981'', pp. 53–54. ==External links== {{commons category|Fritz Quant}} *[http://kulturamt.wittlich.de/kultursparten/ausstellungen/fritz-quant.html Fritz Quant Exhibition] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171027231631/http://kulturamt.wittlich.de/kultursparten/ausstellungen/fritz-quant.html |date=2017-10-27 }} @ Kulturamt Wittlich {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Quant, Fritz}} Category:1888 births Category:1933 deaths Category:20th-century German painters Category:20th-century German male artists Category:German landscape painters Category:20th-century German etchers Category:19th-century German etchers Category:20th-century German designers Category:German illustrators Category:People from Trier Category:Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig alumni --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Fritz Quant](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Quant) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Quant?action=history)). 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