Ernst Frick (painter)

For the soccer player, see Ernst Frick (footballer).

Ernst Frick
Frick (left) in conversation with the progressive educator and chemist Paul Reiner
Born	(1881-09-21)September 21, 1881 Knonau
Died	August 23, 1956(1956-08-23) (aged 74) Ascona
Known for	Editor of Der Weckruf
Movement	Der Große Bär
Spouse	Margarethe Fellerer
Partner	Frieda Gross-Schloffer

Ernst Frick (1881–1956) was a Swiss painter.

Biography

Frick was born in Knonau, the son of a travelling salesman. Frick was a founder, who became a union member and then anarchist. He was editor of anarchist newspaper Weckruf (1904-1906). He served a year in prison (1912-1913) for his involvement in liberating a Russian anarchist from incarceration in Zurich. From 1911, he lived with Frieda Gross-Schloffer, wife of psychoanalyst Otto Gross, then from 1920, with photographer Margarethe Fellerer, whom he married in 1941. He became a painter at the urging of Artur Segal, and published essays on archaeology and the history of language.