Fritz Schwegler - Artist Info

About Fritz Schwegler

  • Biography

    Fritz Schwegler was a German artist born in 1935 in Breech near Göppingen, Germany. He completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter and traveled through Europe, Asia Minor, and Africa as a journeyman. He passed his master craftsman examination as a carpenter in Stuttgart and became a state-certified industrial technician in wood. He learned under Ernst Rülke and began working as a freelance sculptor in 1962. He also taught at the Stuttgart youth center and studied sculpture at the Stuttgart State Academy of Fine Arts. He continued his studies at the City and Guilds of London Art School. In 1973, he became a lecturer for basic plastic theory at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and was appointed as a professor in 1975, initially for painting and late...

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