25 Facts About Fritz Pfeiffer

Fritz Pfeiffer was an American abstract artist known for modernist landscapes and geometric abstractions.

Fritz Pfeiffer taught art classes in cities across a wide swath of the United States from Provincetown to Knoxville, Buffalo, and Detroit.

Fritz Pfeiffer attended high school in York and subsequently took classes from Hugh Breckenridge and others at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Fritz Pfeiffer joined the York Art Association before completing his art studies and in 1909 was appointed its treasurer.

Fritz Pfeiffer frequently contributed to the association's exhibitions and after he moved out of the city in 1915 he continued to send paintings for exhibition in York from time to time.

In 1915, Fritz Pfeiffer showed again at the Peabody and soon after showed at the Milwaukee Art Institute.

Fritz Pfeiffer's work has appeared in exhibits at Wanamaker's and the Pennsylvania Academy.

Fritz Pfeiffer became an officer of the Provincetown Art Association and participated in its exhibitions.

Fritz Pfeiffer's work was supervised by another Provincetown resident, the artist Florence Brown.

Fritz Pfeiffer participated in the inaugural exhibition of Massachusetts artists at the New Federal Art Project Gallery in Boston in 1936.

Fritz Pfeiffer remained in the project until at least 1940, the date of a solo show held at Harvard's Germanic Museum.

Fritz Pfeiffer moved to Detroit and in 1942 married Hope Voorhees, an artist who had been one of his students.

Fritz Pfeiffer continued to contribute to group shows with other Provincetown painters.

Fritz Pfeiffer once wrote that he aimed for clarity and purity in his work.

Adept at creating compositions which are both charged with movement and harmoniously balanced, Fritz Pfeiffer is able through the contrast of sharp opaque shapes with areas of nuance and transparency, to infuse an ordinarily static mode of painting with liveliness and a certain flashy vigor.

Fritz Pfeiffer's handling of an architectural subject in oil can be seen in his painting, "Heinrich Fritz Pfeiffer's House" of 1934.

Fritz Pfeiffer led classes while living in York, Knoxville, Provincetown, Detroit, and Buffalo.

Fritz Pfeiffer was the son of an elementary school teacher, Henry H Pfeiffer, and Mary Jane Sourbier Pfeiffer.

Fritz Pfeiffer's sisters were Jennie and Alice who both died young as well as Virginia.

Herman E Pfeiffer was a real estate speculator, builder, and architect in York.

Fritz Pfeiffer settled a suit against his firm in 1918 and disappeared thereafter.

John Quincy Adams Fritz Pfeiffer named a son after his brother.

Fritz Pfeiffer ran the town's theater and the art gallery it contained.

Fritz Pfeiffer's sister Virginia was a founder of York's Young People's Socialist League.

Fritz Pfeiffer had been hospitalized for injuries received during a fire at his home and did not recover.