{"id":14543,"count":0,"description":"Fritz K\u00f6hler (born June 28, 1887, in Moritzberg near Hildesheim; died February 12, 1972, in D\u00fcsseldorf) was a German landscape and marine painter. Born Friedrich K\u00f6hler, he moved with his family to Hamburg in 1892 during the cholera outbreak, from which they were spared. In his youth, K\u00f6hler traveled the seas as a young sailor on merchant ships. From 1905 to 1907, he attended the Hamburg and Altona Art and Craft Schools. The director of the Hamburg Kunsthalle, Alfred Lichtwark, recognized K\u00f6hler\u2019s talent and advised him to study in Weimar. K\u00f6hler then studied at the Weimar School of Applied Arts from 1909 to 1912 under Max Thedy and later as a master student of landscape painter Theodor Hagen.\n\nAfter his studies, K\u00f6hler briefly established a studio in Hamburg, but by 1913, he relocated to D\u00fcsseldorf. During the Nazi period, he was a member of the militaristic artist group Westfront and was required to join the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts. His studio in D\u00fcsseldorf was destroyed in World War II, prompting his evacuation to Berchtesgaden. K\u00f6hler returned to D\u00fcsseldorf in 1945, where he worked in his final studio in the D\u00fcsseldorf Artists' Association building on Sittarder Street. He was a member of the Reich Association of Visual Artists of Germany and the D\u00fcsseldorf artist association Malkasten, co-founded the 1949 Artists' Group, and served on the board of the D\u00fcsseldorf heritage society, the Jonges.\n\nK\u00f6hler exhibited widely, including in 1936 at the \"Westfront. Free Art in the New State\" in Essen, at the Great German Art Exhibitions in Munich (1941\u20131944), and at the D\u00fcsseldorf Artists\u2019 Group 1949 in D\u00fcsseldorf. K\u00f6hler's works are held in the Berlin National Gallery, the Hamburg Kunsthalle, and the North Rhine-Westphalia Art Collection in D\u00fcsseldorf. In 1967, he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, and the Fritz-K\u00f6hler-Weg in D\u00fcsseldorf-Wittlaer was named in his honor.","link":"https:\/\/collection.galerie-gerdes.com\/en\/c\/artist-en-2\/fritz-koehler-en\/","name":"Fritz Ko\u0308hler","slug":"fritz-koehler-en","taxonomy":"product_cat","parent":1857,"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collection.galerie-gerdes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat\/14543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collection.galerie-gerdes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collection.galerie-gerdes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/product_cat"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collection.galerie-gerdes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat\/1857"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/collection.galerie-gerdes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?product_cat=14543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}