Wilhelm Pilgram (painter)

Wilhelm Pilgram: Self-Portrait

Wilhelm Pilgram: View over Stuttgart

Wilhelm Pilgram (born April 8, 1814 in Stuttgart , † October 29, 1889 there ) was a German genre and decorative painter.

Life and works

Wilhelm Pilgram was a descendant of Elias Bilgram . He was the son of the court mechanic Johann Conrad Pilgram (1771–1840) and Christiane Wilhelmine, b. Tiedemann and had an older sister named Sophie (1808–1870) who became a miniature painter.

Wilhelm Pilgram received his training with Gottlob Wilhelm Morff in Stuttgart, later at the Art Academy in Vienna with Friedrich von Amerling and in Paris .

Among other things, Pilgram created paintings in the stairwell of the New Palace in Stuttgart, in the staircase of the Villa Berg in Stuttgart, where he left a depiction of the twelve months, and in the New Palace in Baden-Baden . In 1846 he painted oil paintings of animals and sea monsters for a covered walkway in the Stuttgart Wilhelma , but due to moisture damage, these had to be replaced by terracotta panels in 1856 (" terracotta wall "). In 1874 he restored the wall paintings in the monastery church in Lorch . For the Nikolaikirche in Heilbronn he created a picture of Christ dragging his cross in the choir.

Pilgram also created illustrations for Faust by Nikolaus Lenau . and to Götz von Berlichingen , which were printed by Johann Baptist Kuhn after lithographs by CW Müller.

In 2012, the Stuttgart City Archives showed an exhibition with works by Wilhelm and Sophie Pilgram from the Eugen Kittel collection and other holdings.

literature

• Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon. The most famous contemporaries in the field of fine arts of all countries with details of their works . Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1883, pp. 417-418 ( digitized version ).
• Hermann Alexander Müller, Hans Wolfgang Singer : General artist lexicon . Vol. 3, Frankfurt 1898, p. 439 ( digitized version ).
• Pilgram, Wilhelm . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933, p. 39-40 .

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Pilgram  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

1. ^ The manuscripts of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 1988, ISBN 978-3-447-02777-9 , p. 71 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
2. ^ Andor Trierenberg: The court and university mechanics in Württemberg in the early 19th century . Dissertation Stuttgart 2014, pp. 260–271 ( digitized version ); here on p. 261 the sister accidentally called Charlotte once.
3. ^ Description of the Oberamt Heilbronn , Stuttgart 1865, p. 172.
4. ↑ Allgemeine Zeitung Munich , July 2, 1851, supplement, p. 2927 ( digitized version ); Faust - the dance on www.museum-digital.de and Faust - the moon on www.museum-digital.de , copies in the possession of the Frankfurt Goethehaus .
5. ↑ The dying Götz on www.museum-digital.de , copy in the possession of the Frankfurt Goethehaus.