Education
He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Professor Helmut Sturm from 1985 to 1990.
He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Professor Helmut Sturm from 1985 to 1990.
From 1996-2002 he worked as a painting assistant with Professor Jerry Zeniuk. He has lectured in the United States at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago in 2000, at the Art Academy of Cincinnati in 2001, and at Mills College in Berkeley, California in November 2009. His awards include the Award for Visual Arts of the City of Munich in 1993, the Promotion Prize for Fine Arts of the Free State of Bavaria in 1995, the Erwin and Gisela von Steiner Foundation in 1997, the Artist in Residence of the Free State of Bavaria from 2001–2004, and a studio scholarship with the Oswalkd-Zitzelsberger Foundation from 2007-2009
Fritsch"s work is in the public collections of:
City Gallery Lenbachhaus, Munich
Art Collection of the Bavarian State, Munich
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
Artothek, Munich
Museum of Christian Art, Passau
Museum Katharinenhof, Kranenburg
National Gallery, Harare (Simbabwe)
Museum of Modern Art GuangDong, Guangzhou (China).