Fritz Erler
Detail; Calma, c. 1909
Oil on canvas
163 by 251.5cm., 64¼ by 99in.
Private collection
The hunting goddess Diana
Oil on canvas
163 by 251.5cm., 64¼ by 99in.
Private collection
Estimated for €3,000 EUR - €4,000 EUR in May 2011
Frankenstein/Schlesien - 1940 Munich
The Female Fishermen
Oil on canvas
65 x 45cm.
Private collection
Sold for €1,300 EUR in Nov 2012
Fritz Erler
The Spanish woman
Oil on panel
82 by 90cm., 32¼ by 35½in.
Sold for 50,000 GBP in November 2013
Fritz Erler, 1868 Frankenstein - 1940 Munich
LADY WITH FAN
Oil on wood.
160 x 163 cm.
Private collection
Estimated for € 25.000 - 45.000 in September 2023
Fritz Erler
Calma, c. 1909
Oil on canvas
163 by 251.5cm., 64¼ by 99in.
Private collection
Sold for 31,250 GBP in December 2016
Fritz Erler (15 December 1868 – 11 December 1940) was a German painter, graphic designer and scenic designer. Although most talented as an interior designer, he is perhaps best remembered for several propaganda posters he produced during World War I.
He was born in Frankenstein. Beginning in 1886 he studied under Albrecht Bräuer at the school of art in Breslau. He also attended the Académie Julian in Paris. In 1895 he moved to Munich and lived from 1918 in Holzhausen am Ammersee. His first designs date from 1893. In 1896 he was a founding member of the magazine Jugend. He also painted several portraits around the start of the 20th century.
Erler was one of the official military painters for the Oberste Heeresleitung. His paintings were commissioned as war propaganda.
Fritz Erler
Help us win - subscribe to the war bond
Colored lithography
Printed by Fritz Maison Munich.
The promotional poster for the sixth war bond was adorned with his painting Helft uns siegen! (1917), perhaps Erler's best-known work. A soldier, his face darkened from the muck of the trenches, gazes beyond the viewer into No Man's Land with eyes that shine as if from an inward light. This heroic image depicts the widespread contemporary belief that trench warfare would somehow be a morally cleansing experience.
Erler died in Munich in 1940. More on Fritz Erler
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