Karl Wenzel (painter)

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Emsmühle silo with sower, painted by Karl Wenzel

Karl Wenzel (born February 27, 1887 in Ibbenbüren , † September 27, 1947 in Kevelaer ) was a German painter , church painter , musician and writer .

Life

Karl Wenzel spent his youth in Rheine , where his father Ludwig Wenzel (1852 to 1920) was also a church painter.

Herz-Jesu-Kirche Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg, 1926–1928 by Karl Wenzel completed the painting of the work his teacher Friedrich Stummel began in 1911–1913 in the apse, the choir and the crossing

From 1906 to 1914 Karl was a student of Friedrich Stummel in Kevelaer after completing high school . Ludwig painted in the city church of St. Dionysius (former sacristy, today open to visitors as the "Word of God Chapel" ), Karl in the St. Antonius Basilica (baptistery) and in the Marienbasilika (Kevelaer) and other churches. In 1915 daughter Gerte was born. He went on study trips to Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Berlin.

From 1916 - in the middle of World War I - Wenzel worked as a freelance artist.

In 1932, as chairman of the artists' union, he was the organizer of an art exhibition of local painters in Kevelaer. In the 30s and 40s he turned to profane painting. His naturalistic work and “völkisch painting style”, which in terms of content and form corresponded to the art ideas of National Socialism, were very well received. From 1937 onwards there were exhibitions with watercolors and etchings in the Folkwang Museum of the artists from the Gau Essen, in Rheine and Kevelaer. In 1943 he was represented with several oil paintings in an exhibition in the Munich House of German Art .

In the post-war period , Wenzel initiated the "Great Art Exhibition" in Kevelaer in 1947. In the place he worked as chairman of the Kevelaerer Künstlerbund.

Wenzel painted many churches in Westphalia, the Lower Rhine, Dutch and Berlin. In Kevelaer, works were lost to bombs and looting during World War II . The works that have been preserved include the wall paintings in the Herz-Jesu-Kirche (Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg) , the Rosary Basilica (Berlin-Steglitz) , the Church of Our Lady in Lourdes in Mariënvelde in Oost Gelre and the 7 meter high one painted in 1937 Sower in the silo , a mural on the silo of the Emsmühle in Rheine .

Honors and aftermath

Karl-Wenzel-Strasse was named after him in the so-called “artists' quarter” of Kevelaer .

In January 1967 an exhibition of graphics and pictures by Karl W. Wenzel took place in Kevelaer. Eight framed pictures in watercolor and mixed media from the “City Series” as well as four etchings are in the possession of the museum in Kevelaer. The artistic estate of Karl Wenzel is in the municipal museums Falkenhof-Museum and Museum Kloster Bentlage in Rheine.

literature

  • Minster. Journal for Christian Art and Art History Volume 20, Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 1967, ZDB -ID 3673-0 , p. 72
  • Christiane Kerrutt: Painting and graphics in Emsland 1860 - 1960 (= Emsland - Raum im Nordwesten , Vol. 17), 1st edition, Sögel: Emsländischer Heimatbund, 2001, ISBN 978-3-88077-085-0 and ISBN 3-88077 -085-9 , pp. 138-139

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d o. V .: Wenzel, Karl in the database of Lower Saxony Persons of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of December 4, 2008, last accessed on October 19, 2018
  2. ^ Building history on the website of the Marienbasilika Kevelaer, accessed on August 2, 2015
  3. ↑ a b c Blattus Martini | The Kevelaer painter Karl W. Wenzel and the Nazi era. In: Blattus.de. Retrieved August 6, 2015 .
  4. ↑ a b c Blattus Martini | The Kevelaerer Masler Karl W. Wenzel. In: Blattus.de. Retrieved August 6, 2015 .
  5. ↑ a b Paeßens-Wenzel estate, establishment of a museum foundation. (No longer available online.) In: rheine-buergerinfo.de. www.rheine-buergerinfo.de, formerly in the original ; accessed on August 6, 2015 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.rheine-buergerinfo.de  
personal data
SURNAME Wenceslaus, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Ibbenbueren
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1947
Place of death Kevelaer