Fritz Erler
6 albums/43 artworks – Fritz Erler (1868 – 1940) was a versatile German painter, graphic artist, illustrator, and designer whose work left a distinctive mark on the transition from late 19th-century academic art to the flowing elegance of Jugendstil (German Art Nouveau).Born in Frankenstein, Silesia (now Ząbkowice Śląskie, Poland), Erler trained at the Royal Art and Trade School in Breslau, followed by studies in Berlin, Weimar, Munich, and at the Académie Julian in Paris. He eventually settled in Munich, where he became one of the city’s most respected artists by the turn of the century. Erler rose to prominence through his long collaboration with the influential magazine Jugend, for which he created numerous covers and illustrations starting with the very…
