Adalbert Wimmenauer

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Adalbert Wimmenauer , also Adelbert Wimmenauer (born February 2, 1869 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ; † (fallen) November 17, 1914 near Ypres , Belgium ), was a German landscape , portrait and figure painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Adalbert Wimmenauer was a son of the high school teacher Theodor Wimmenauer, born on January 20, 1842 in Neckarsteinach . The last educational place of his father was the high school Adolfinum Moers , which Adalbert attended from 1882 to 1887. After graduating from high school, he studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy until 1889/1890 . There were Heinrich Lauenstein , Hugo Crola and Adolf Schill his teachers. He then became a student of Max Liebermann in Berlin and Hans Thoma in Karlsruhe . As a freelance artist, he settled in Munich , but kept coming back to the Lower Rhine , whose landscape he valued as an open-air painter . He also went on study trips to the Netherlands, Belgium and Italy.

In 1914 Wimmenauer volunteered for service in the First World War . With the Royal Bavarian 16th Reserve Infantry Regiment , in which Adolf Hitler also served at the time , he went to the First Battle of Flanders . On November 17, 1914, he was fatally hit by a grenade .

Wimmenauer's impressionistic landscape painting is often characterized by reserved colors. On the 100th anniversary of his death, the Grafschafter Museum in Moers organized an exhibition of his works.

literature

  • Wimmenauer, Adalbert . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947, p. 46 .
  • Horst Ludwig : Munich painter in the 19th century . Bruckmann, Munich 1983, ISBN 978-3-7654-1633-0 , Volume 4, p. 386.
  • Christine Knupp-Uhlenhaut: Adelbert Wimmenauer - a Grafschafter painter . In: home calendar of the Wesel district . 9th year (1988), pp. 5-8.
  • Diana Finkele: The Grafschafter painter Adalbert Wimmenauer and the First World War . In: annual edition . Grafschafter Museum and History Association in Moers e. V., Moers 2015, pp. 74-78.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen )
personal data
SURNAME Wimmenauer, Adalbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wimmenauer, Adelbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape, portrait and figure painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Mülheim an der Ruhr
DATE OF DEATH November 17, 1914
Place of death near Ypres , Belgium