Alfred Wais
Alfred Wais (born August 2, 1905 in Birkach near Stuttgart , † February 29, 1988 in Stuttgart ) was a painter, graphic artist and member of the Stuttgart New Secession . He was a close friend of the architect Ottmar Besenfelder .
Life
After training as a teacher in Kirchheim / Teck and Backnang , he began studying sculpture with Ulfert Janssen at the Technical University of Stuttgart. From 1927 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart . During his studies he made contact with the members of the Stuttgart New Secession, in whose exhibitions he participated for the first time in 1932. His life as an art teacher was interrupted by war and imprisonment, from which he returned in 1946 and made the decision to become a freelance artist. In 1952 he initiated the Free Group of Swabian Painters and Sculptors as the successor organization to the New Secession. In 1980 he was appointed professor. Günther Wirth assigns his work, "which is touched by the Poles Impressionism and Expressionism " and includes oil paintings, watercolors, lithographs and etchings, to expressive realism .
He is the father of Edgar Wais and the Henninger student and art teacher Marie-Luise Wais.
literature
- Rainer Zimmermann: Alfred Wais - Painting and Graphics , Stuttgart 1980
- Günther Wirth: Art in the German Southwest from 1945 to the present . Hatje, Stuttgart, 1982.
- Stefan Borchardt (ed.): Alfred Wais. Magic of things . Catalog for the exhibition at the Hohenkarpfen Art Foundation from July 26th to November 8th, 2015. Belser , Stuttgart, 2015.
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| SURNAME | Wais, Alfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd August 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Birkach (Stuttgart) |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 29, 1988 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart |