Wilhelm Claus
Wilhelm Claus (born September 22, 1882 in Breslau , † June 23, 1914 in Paris ) was an impressionist painter and graphic artist .
Life
Claus studied at the Königsberg Art Academy as well as at the Munich Art Academy with Ludwig von Löfftz and the Dresden Art Academy with Eugen Bracht . From 1905 Wilhelm Claus stayed in Dresden and the Loessnitz and from 1910 lived in the tower house of the Grundhof in Niederlößnitz . He was friends with the painter Karl Kröner (1887–1972) , who lived in the tower house until 1972, as well as with the painter Paul Wilhelm (1886–1965). Wilhelm Claus was a member of the German Association of Artists .
Claus is included in the catalog of the first exhibition at the Free Secession Berlin in 1914. In the same year he received a scholarship to Paris, where he died of typhus shortly before his 32nd birthday .
Many of his late works with motifs from the Loessnitz are lost today. A collection of his works is now in the Bautzen City Museum , other works hang in the Dresden State Art Collections / Galerie Neue Meister .
A photographic portrait of Claus, created in 1908 by Hugo Erfurth , has been in the Folkwang Museum since 1979 .
literature
- Claus, Wilhelm . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 7 : Cioffi – Cousyns . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 64 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Claus, Wilhelm . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 449 .
- Susanna Partsch : Claus, Wilhelm . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 19, Saur, Munich a. a. 1998, ISBN 3-598-22759-0 , p. 448.
- Frank Andert (Red.): Radebeul City Lexicon . Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Published by the Radebeul City Archives. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Claus: Johann-Georgen-Avenue in Dresden , 1910.
- ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903 / Claus, Wilhelm ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on March 20, 2016)
- ^ Publishing house of the "Exhibition House on Kurfürstendamm" GMBH: Catalog of the first exhibition of the Free Secession Berlin . Berlin 1914, p. 19.
- ^ Hugo Erfurth: Wilhelm Claus , 1908.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Claus, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 22, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 23, 1914 |
| Place of death | Paris |