Fabry, Edmund

Architect, painter, draughtsman, graphic artist

Born: 20.02.1892 in Norderney

died: 14.11.1939 in Wiesbaden

In 1930, Fabry designed the war memorial on the Neroberg in Wiesbaden together with Arnold Hensler. In 1931/32, he designed the fountain in the Reisinger and Herbert grounds together with garden architect Wilhelm Hirsch. He also planned the Opelbad on the Neroberg in 1933/34 together with Franz Schuster and Wilhelm Hirsch. As early as 1916, Fabry was in contact with the art collector Heinrich Kirchhoff.

He emerged as a painter and graphic artist at the end of the First World War. In 1917, he was represented at exhibitions organized by the Frankfurt art dealer Ludwig Schames (1852-1922) and the Nassauischer Kunstverein e.V.. The Museum Wiesbaden owns various works on paper, landscapes and architectural depictions by him. Around 1917, they show him to be an artist oriented towards Expressionism in terms of style and color, who tended towards abstraction. In 1920, he became a member of the "Darmstadt Secession", to which his fellow Wiesbaden artists Arnold Hensler, Otto Ritschl and Josef Eberz also belonged.

As a painter and draughtsman, he mainly produced still lifes and architectural paintings. In 1921, Fabry was the exhibition director of a group exhibition organized by the Nassauischer Kunstverein e.V. and the Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst. Works by Alexej von Jawlensky were also included in this exhibition. Jawlensky later wrote in his memoirs that he counted Fabry among his most important friends, who prompted him to take up residence in Wiesbaden. Fabry, Jawlensky and his son Andreas, Arnold Hensler, Elisabeth (Lisa) Kümmel, Alo Altripp and 22 other artists were members of the Freie Künstlerschaft Wiesbaden, which had been founded by Ritschl in 1925.