Adolf Wriggers
Adolf Henry Wriggers (born April 27, 1896 in Hamburg ; † November 30, 1984 ibid) was a German painter and graphic artist who mainly worked in the style of Impressionism .
Life
Adolf Wriggers learned the painting trade. In 1913 he received a scholarship for the Hamburg School of Applied Arts with Julius Wohlers . Before 1914 he was politically active in the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ) and the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and in 1918 he joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). Due to hearing damage, he was employed in the military service as a coachman in East Prussia from 1915 to 1918 and then continued his training at the now renamed Landeskunstschule under Carl Schroeder. From 1919 he lived freelance in Hamburg.
During the period of National Socialism he was arrested several times and temporarily taken into protective custody, first in 1934 with eight months in Fuhlsbüttel, then arrested again on December 7, 1939 and sentenced to one year in prison. He was friends with Hans Conrad Leipelt and his mother Katharina Leipelt . Wriggers supported the resistance activities of the White Rose Hamburg . In 1949 he founded the Kleiner Hamburger Künstlerring with a few other artists .
In 1956 he lost an eye during an operation and became increasingly blind until he became completely blind in 1968. During this time, the forms and motifs of his works were increasingly coarse. As early as the 1920s and then again from 1950 onwards, he had dealt with woodcuts and etchings, mainly painting in the Impressionist style, including small-format works. His subject was often the port of Hamburg, which earned him the nickname “port painter”, as well as industrial landscapes and landscape painting in oil and watercolor.
Adolf Wiggers died in November 1984 in his hometown of Hamburg.
See also
literature
- Maike Bruhns: Art in Crisis. Volume 2: Artist Lexicon Hamburg 1933–1945 . Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-933374-95-2 , pp. 429-432.
- Wriggers, Adolf Henry. In: Ernst Rump (beginning), Kay Rump (ed.), Maike Bruhns (ed.): Der Neue Rump. Lexicon of fine artists in Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area . 2nd Edition. Verlag Wachtholz, Neumünster 2005, ISBN 3-529-02792-8 , pp. 522-523.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wriggers, Adolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wriggers, Adolf Henry |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 27, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 30, 1984 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |