Anton Waller

Anton Waller (born April 11, 1861 in Neumugl near Marienbad ; † May 10, 1934 in Roßbach / Westerwald ) was a German painter .

Life

Anton Waller (full name Georg Anton Waller) was born in Neumugl in today's Czech Republic. He studied privately in Vienna (among others with Joseph Machold ) and Munich. He completed his training as a painter with a study trip to Italy (Venice, Florence, Rome). Then he came to Wiedenbrück , together with the painter Georg Goldkuhle , where he joined the Wiedenbrück school . In 1904 Waller moved to Düsseldorf. In Westphalia and the Rhineland he furnished numerous churches with altar paintings, frescoes, crossroads and the like - sometimes together with his colleagues. Ä. from. The restored Stations of the Cross in Bochum-Riemke (St. Franziskus), Rheda (St. Clemens) and in Wiedenbrück ( St. Aegidius ) can still be visited. In Kloster Tepl (Czech Republic) of the restoration after the end of the Socialist system was exposed in the chapter house a ceiling fresco by Waller and restored in the course. Anton Waller's son Renz Waller (1895–1979) became known as a falconer and animal painter . Anton Waller's grandson Jürgen Waller (born 1939) was a painter professor at the University of the Arts in Bremen , where he also served as rector from 1989 to 2004.

Works (selection)

• Bochum-Riemke, St. Franziskus Way of the Cross
• Dortmund-Huckarde, Way of the Cross, St. Urbanus wall paintings
• Dortmund-Lütgendortmund, St. Magdalena frescoes
• Herne, Way of the Cross Herz-Jesu
• Herzebrock, Way of the Cross St. Christina
• Rheda , Stations of the Cross, Altarpiece St. Clemens
• Wiedenbrück , Way of the Cross St. Aegidius Church (Wiedenbrück)
• Tepl, frescoed Premonstratensian monastery

crucifixion

literature

• Große Hovest, Benedikt / Heinrich, Marita: The "Wiedenbrücker Schule". Historicist arts and crafts. Bonifatius Verlag 1991. ISBN 3-87088-662-5 .
• Monday / Tillmann / Spieker / Höltershinken (ed.): The Catholic Church in Dortmund. Their history and their parishes. Bonifatius Verlag 2006. ISBN 3-89710-365-6 .
• Gnirs, Anton : Topography of the historical and art-historical monuments in the districts of Tepl and Marienbad. Dr. Benno Filoser Verlag 1932.
• Schmidt, Erhard / Vogt, Gilbert: The Teplá Monastery and the Premonstratensians in Obermedlingen, Verlag Ludwig Auer, undated

Web links

• Wiedenbrück School Museum
  • Self portrait
• "Annunciation" abbey church
• Sankt Franziskus Bochum-Riemke - Picture gallery Stations of the Cross
• Parish of St. Christina Herzebrock
• Parish of St. Aegidius Wiedenbrück