Willy Illmer

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Willy Illmer (born May 7, 1899 in Dresden ; † August 24, 1968 there ) was a German painter . Illmer was a member of the Dresden artist group Die Schaffenden , co-founder of the Dresden local group of the Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists and a member of the artist group Das Ufer .

Life

Willy Illmer was born in Dresden in 1899. From 1912 to 1915 he completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter . Willy Illmer was called up during World War I and served as a soldier from 1916 to 1918. From 1921 to 1928 he studied at the Dresden Art Academy .

Illmer was a member of the artist group Die Schaffenden together with Erich Fraaß , Curt Großpietsch , Wilhelm Lachnit and Fritz Skade . Illmer went on study trips to Switzerland and France . In 1929/1930 he was one of the founding members of the Dresden local group of the Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists . From 1940 to 1945 he served as a soldier in World War II . During the bombing raids on Dresden in February 1945, a large part of Willy Illmer's early artistic work was destroyed.

From 1946 to 1947 Illmer worked as a teacher at the arts and crafts school in Leipzig . Illmer participated in the artist group Das Ufer . From 1952 to 1956 he worked as a lecturer at the workers and farmers faculty of the Dresden University of Fine Arts . Illmer was on the Dresden district board of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1926: Dresden, large watercolor exhibition Dresden, May to the end of September, Brühlsche Terrasse , Sächsischer Kunstverein
  • 1930: Exhibition of Dresdner Kunst, June 6th - September 30th, Brühlsche Terrasse
  • 1945: Dresden, Free Artists, Exhibition No. 1
  • 1946: Dresden, General German Art Exhibition
  • 1949: Dresden, The Shore. Group of Dresden artists 1947
  • 1949: Dresden, 10 murals are created : Large power station Hirschfelde , together with Siegfried Donndorf and Fritz Tröger
  • 1952: Dresden, September exhibition of Dresden artists
  • 1969: Greifswald, Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists
  • 1978: Berlin, revolution and realism
  • 1980: Dresden, art on the move. Dresden 1918–1933
  • 1984: Dresden, Das Ufer
  • 1987: Düsseldorf, Die Dresdner Künstlerzene 1913–1933 , Galerie Remmert and Barth
  • 1989: Dresden, Art Academy - Dresden. Painting, graphics, sculpture by teachers and students in the 20th century

literature

  • Großpietsch, Curt (Kurt) . In: Martin Papenbrock, Gabriele Saure (Hrsg.): Art of the early 20th century in German exhibitions: Part 2. Antifascist artists in exhibitions in the Soviet Zone and the GDR . Publishing house and database for the humanities, Weimar 2000, ISBN 3-89739-040-X , p. 255-256 , doi : 10.1466 / 20061109.27 .
  • Illmer, Willy . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 546 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manuela Bonnke: Art in Production: Fine Arts and Nationally Owned Economy in the Soviet Zone / GDR . Böhlau, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-35805-1 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  2. ^ Muralismus.ch: Illustration of the work by Siegfried Donndorf, Willy Illmer, Fritz Tröger during the mural campaign of 1949. Retrieved on November 26, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Illmer, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1968
Place of death Dresden