Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Bauer - Hannes Fritz

Johannes Adam Fritz, (1896 - 1981) was a German artist. He studied at Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich and built up a reputation as a portrait painter. Also known as Fritz-München, for his habit of signing his work by pairing his name with the city of Munich, Fritz travelled to India and became a court painter to several maharajahs in India. He visited India 5 times from 1932 - 1937 and painted more than 55 portraits of Indian Royalty and senior British civil servants. Fritz visited Ceylon in 1937.