Fritz Hass (den yngre)

Fritz Hass (April 12, 1902 in Munich – 1994 in Munich) was a German painter. He was considered the last Impressionist of the Munich school of painting.

Fritz Hass was the son of the Munich painter and caricaturist of the same name, Fritz Hass, with whom he received his first artistic training. From April 27, 1920, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. There he was a pupil of the academy professor Hermann Groeber. Study trips took him to the Netherlands, England, France, Switzerland, Austria and Italy. He then settled in Munich, where he moved into a large studio in Schraudolphstrasse, which was destroyed during the air raids on Munich. After the Second World War, he lived and worked in Landsberg am Lech and in Switzerland. He returned to Munich in 1970. He was active as an artist until his death at the ripe old age of 92. Initially, Fritz Hass made a name for himself as a portrait painter. Among others, he painted portraits of Prince and Princess Waldemar of Prussia and Albert Schweitzer. Later, landscape painting was a focal point of his artistic work. His preferred subjects were the Bavarian, Swiss and Austrian mountains as well as the area around Lake Chiemsee and the Dachauer Moos. In his later work, he devoted himself to flower painting. His paintings are characterized by impressionistic lightness and a sensitive sense of color.