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1910
graduates from Nicolai Gymnasium ( Grammar School ), Leipzig 1910
- 1912 studies at the Royal Academy of Art in Dresden on the advice of
Max Liebermann and Wilhelm Trübner; gets acqainted with George Grosz;
drawing lessons from Robert Sterl and Richard Müller 1912
moves to Berlin on the advice of Waldemar Rösler; rooms with George
Grosz; meets Max Beckmann 1913
- 1914 participates in the Berlin Secession Spring exhibition; departs
for Paris in April; meets the graphic artist Otto Schoff; together they
do model studies at the Académie Colarossi; meets Jules Pascin,
Karl Hofer and Wilhelm Uhde; participates in the Berlin Secession Autumn
exposition and in the exhibition ‘Der Dôme’, Galerie Flechtheim,
Düsseldorf 1914
Hedwig Jaenichen- Woermann ( Hamburg ) offers Fiedler a studio and a stipend
for a year in Paris, starting August 1, 1914; on August 3 1914, Germany
declares war on France; leaving his work and diaries behind, Fiedler is
obliged to return to Leipzig on July 31st; is sent to the eastern front
and seriously wounded 1916
Fiedler is released from military duty; returns to Berlin; has to perform
alternative service 1918
participates in Freie Secession exhibition, Berlin; praise by the art
critic Karl Scheffler in ‘Kunst und Künstler’; meets John
Heartfield, Richard Hülsenbeck, Frans Wildenhain, Max Pechstein and
Bertolt Brecht 1924
- 1926 works in the UFA-studios and paint workshops, Berlin 1926
- 1927 travels to Italy with the sculptor Kurt Radtke 1930
- 1931 visits Paris for the second time; meets the Swiss artist Amrey
Balsiger 1932
Amrey joins Fiedler in Berlin; Fiedler exhibits at the Gurlitt Gallery;
a new fresco-like technique (stone painting) he developed together with
Kurt Radtke attracts attention; again praise by Karl Scheffler for his
work in the Freie Secession exhibition 1933
- 1934 participates in the Spring and Autumn exhibitions of the Berliner
Secession; exhibits with the Künstlerbund, Kassel/Saarbrücken,
and with the Verein Berliner Künstler 1934
- 1935 departs ‘on holiday’ to the Netherlands leaving the bulk
of his possessions behind, together with Amrey, who helps in getting his
work out of Germany under her name; settles in the artists’ village
Laren; visit from George Grosz 1937
Fiedler is sought in Germany by the ‘Reichskammer der Bildende Künste’(Mitteilungsblatt
der Bildende Künste, 1937) 1938
- 1939 marries Amrey Balsiger; birth of daughter Anna Sabine 1940
Germany invades the Netherlands; the Fiedlers are forced to move to Amsterdam;
regularly meets with Max Beckmann during the occupation period 1942
exhibition in the Gallery ‘Pampus’ 1944
enlisted in the German army guarding bridges; fearing for his family,
does not go underground 1945
interned by the Dutch authorities; is released after 2 months through
efforts of the Resistance and colleagues; exhibition embargo till January
1, 1946 1948
Fiedler and Amrey become members of the newly formed ‘De realisten’
(The Realists) 1949
Fiedler becomes a member of the ‘Hollandse Aquarellistenkring’
(Dutch
Aquarellist’s Society) 1953
on the invitation of the Max Beckmann Society he makes a study-trip to
Munich and Murnau, Germany 1957
finally the Fiedlers get Dutch citizenship 1961
his 70th birthday draws wide attention from his friends and the press;
receives an invitation for a retrospective exhibition by Willem Sandberg,
the director of the Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum 1962
dies suddenly on February 27 of cardiac arrest; September/October memorial
exhibition at the Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum 1999
Amrey Balsiger dies on April 23
1982
- 1983 extensive solo exhibition ( Frank-Fiedler collection ) in Nijmegen,
Hilversum, Zwolle, Franeker and in Amsterdam (Arti et Amicitiae) In connection with a retrospective exhibition, to take place in September 2000 in the Singer Museum, Laren, Holland, and to complete the documentation of visual and other materials undertaken in cooperation with the RKD ( Netherlands Institute for Art History ), the board of the Herbert Fiedler Foundation would welcome any information or assistance in further determining the whereabouts of such materials.
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