Fritz Hafner

Fritz Hafner (10 December 1877 in Vienna, Austria – 21 November 1964 in Juist, Ostfriesland, West Germany) was an Austrian-German painter and visual arts educator.

At 19, he applied for a place at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart and studied for eight years with Carlos Grethe, Jakob Grünenwald, Robert von Haug, and Franz Herterich, and also with Wilhelm Steinhausen [de] in Frankfurt.

While his colleagues concentrated on the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries and mainly modern styles, Hafner found his artistic fulfillment in painting flowers and landscapes.

The Natural History Teaching Aids, a collection made at Schule am Meer, presented by Hafner around 1934 or 1935, was a small museum on the island of Juist with his exhibits on display.

Hafners' approximately 1,000 images (watercolors, drawings, oil paintings and sketches) are partly privately owned; the vast majority, however, are at the Küstenmuseum in Juist.