Baldwin Wolff
Hermann Balduin Wolff (born July 15, 1819 in Schmiedeberg , district of Hirschberg in the Riesengebirge , Lower Silesia , † November 21, 1907 in Düsseldorf ) was a German draftsman and painter of the Romantic period, as well as a drawing teacher and chess player .
Life
Wolff received his education at the Hirschberg high school . Later he worked in the building trade and carried out theoretical and practical studies at the Royal Buildings in Erdmannsdorf ( Giant Mountains ). He was in Italy around 1851 . In the middle of the 19th century Wolff switched to painting . In 1848 he was one of the founders of the Malkasten artists' association . He attended the Berlin University of the Arts and the Düsseldorf Art Academy . At the Düsseldorf Academy he attended Johann Wilhelm Schirmer's landscape class from 1850 , and Hans Fredrik Gude's landscape class from 1854 to 1856 .
From 1858 he received a fixed salary as a drawing teacher at the municipal secondary school in Düsseldorf .
He painted the motifs of his drawings , watercolors and oil paintings , which are now sold internationally at auctions and exhibited in museums, in the style of Romanticism.
Wolff also appeared as a chess player . His highest historical rating was 2530, in 1899 he was appointed honorary chairman of the 1854 Düsseldorf Chess Club. In the West German Chess Federation he held management positions.
literature
- Wolff, Baldwin . 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.
- Willibald Reichertz: East Germans as teachers at the municipal high school in Düsseldorf in the 19th century . In: Ostdeutsche Familienkunde , issue 4/2006, Verlag Degener & Co, Insingen 2006.
Web links
- Balduin Wolff , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( RKD - Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis )
- Balduin Wolff , Auction Results on the Portal artnet .de
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 2, p. 654
- ^ Wilhelm Camphausen : Chronica de rebus Malcastaniensibus . Düsseldorf 1873, Sp. 5 ( Google Books )
- ^ Rudolf Theilmann : The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker . In: Wend von Kalnein (Ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 146
- ↑ Finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen )
- ↑ Balduin Wolff's historical rating at chessmetrics.com (English)
- ^ Chronicle of the Düsseldorfer SV from 1854
- ↑ Yearbook of the West German Chess Federation for 1862 . Verlag von Veit & Comp., Leipzig 1862, p. 20 ( Google Books )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wolff, Baldwin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German draftsman and painter of the Romantic period |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 15, 1819 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schmiedeberg , district of Hirschberg in the Giant Mountains , Lower Silesia |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 21, 1907 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |