Background
His father was Franz Wilhelm Heinrich Deutmann (1840–1906), a well known photographer. In 1891, due to financial difficulties, he returned to Amsterdam and took a position in his father"s photography studio.
His father was Franz Wilhelm Heinrich Deutmann (1840–1906), a well known photographer. In 1891, due to financial difficulties, he returned to Amsterdam and took a position in his father"s photography studio.
He studied painting with January Derk Huibers (1829–1919), a genre artist.
After a brief stay in Germany in 1884, he enrolled at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp) from 1884 to 1887. During his studies at the academie he was a student of Professor Charles Verlat. By 1896, he had established himself as an artist and opened his own studio.
In 1892 he moved to the artists" colony in Laren.
Plein air painting in the company of his fellow artists seems to have cheered him up. His portraits and figures were more colorful and lightly rendered, although his interiors still had a touch of melancholy.
After a few years his depression returned again and he stayed in his studio, doing still lifes of flowers. His work was not as successful as most of his associates of the Laren School.
After 1903, he went back to Amsterdam, but stayed there for only one year.
Then he retired to Blaricum and lived in a house named "Heide-Weide" (Heide Meadows), which was later occupied by several other well-known artists and writers. After a long illness he died at this place in the year 1915, aged only forty-eight. Historisch Museum, Amsterdam Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Groninger Museum, Groningen Gemeentemuseum, The Hague Singer Museum, Laren 1903 Stedelijke internationale tentoonstelling van kunstwerken van levende meesters, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
1907 Stedelijke internationale tentoonstelling van kunstwerken van levende meesters, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
1912 Stedelijke internationale tentoonstelling van kunstwerken van levende meesters, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. 1914 Tentoonstelling van werken door Franz Deutman: Laren, Rotterdam.
1916 Tentoonstelling van werken van Franz Deutman, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam. 1917 Tentoonstelling.
Atelier Franz Deutman, Amsterdam.
2005-2006 Groepstentoonstelling: Onstuitbare verzamelaar J.F.S. Esser: Mondriaan, Breitner, Sluijters e.a., Singer Museum, Laren Catalogs Arti et Amicitiae, (1916): Catalog van werken van Franz Deutman, Publisher Arti et Amicitiae. Catalog Muller + Company (1917): Atelier Franz Deutman, Amsterdam. Tentoonstelling van werken van Franz Deutman: Laren, (New Hampshire) Unger + Van Mens, Kunstzalen, 1914, Rotterdam.
Encyclopedia Scheen, Pieter A. (1981): Lexicon Nederlandse Beeldende Kunstenaars 1750-1950.
2 Volumes, "s-Gravenhage (The Hague), Kunsthandel Pieter A. Scheen North.V., p.
He was a member of Arti et Amicitiae and is considered to be part of the Laren School, an offshoot of the Hague School, which is an independent part of the international movement of impressionism. Franz Deutmann has been a member of the Arti et Amicitiae and of the Kunstenaarsvereniging Sint Lucas.