Benno Wulfsohn

Benjamin "Benno" Wulfsohn (born December 21, 1882 in Mitau , † October 29, 1937 in MinZhu , Shanghai ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Benno Wulfsohn 1925

life and work

Wulfsohn grew up in Vienna as the son of a Jewish fur trader family. He attended the academies in Berlin and Munich. He spent most of his creative years in Berlin. In addition to his main activity as a painter, he also worked as an illustrator for books and magazines. His creative repertoire ranged from oil paintings to watercolors and drawings to prints.

Benno Wulfsohn - 1001 Nights, oil on canvas

He was a student of Max Liebermann , belonged to the Association of Berlin Artists and the Artists' Association of the Berlin Secession and exhibited in this context, among other things. Benno Wulfsohn worked in the 1920s as an advertising poster painter for well-known American companies. He emigrated to the USA and later to China in the early 1930s. There he lived first in Beijing, then in Shanghai, where he died of cholera and yellow fever in 1937.

Exhibitions

"Berliner Secession", 28th exhibition in 1916
"Berliner Secession", 31st exhibition in 1917
"Berliner Secession", 34th exhibition, 1918
"Automobile", exhibition by the Association of Berlin Artists, March 1930
"Jewish Artists", Berlin 1917

Illustrations and illustrations

Pushkin, Alexander: Trip to Erzerum during the campaign of 1829 , 1919
Goldschmidt, Aaron: Maser , 1919
Revue of the month, Volume 1, Issue 1, November 1919, The last kilometer - confession of a racing driver
Die Reklame , August 2, 1925, Volume 18, special issue for the 1925 General Assembly in Dresden
Ulrich Langner: Track culture - railway history (s) in the visual arts , 2011

literature

Wulfsohn, Benno . 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. 304 .
Wulfsohn, Benno . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 176 .

Individual evidence

↑ tombstone project. In: www.shanghaijewishmemorial.com. Bar-Gal, Dvir, etc. a., 2006, accessed October 4, 2014 .
↑ 31. Exhibition of the Berlin Recession. In: www.vialibri.net. Corinth, Lovis, et al. a., accessed on October 4, 2016 .
^ Catalog of the 34th exhibition of the Berlin Secession. Retrieved October 4, 2016 .
^ Catalog of the 34th exhibition of the Berlin Recession. Retrieved October 4, 2016 .
↑ Deaths . Richard H. Taylor. In: The Reading Eagle . March 31, 1930 ( google.com [accessed October 4, 2016]).
^ Berlinische Gallerie Museum of Modern Art: New Art Collection Samuel Margules. Retrieved December 23, 2018 .
↑ The last kilometer . A racing driver's confession. In: Hubert Miketta (Ed.): Revue of the month . November 1929, p. 27 ( illustrated-presse.de [accessed on October 4, 2016]).

personal data
SURNAME	Wulfsohn, Benno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wulfsohn, Benjamin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 21, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mitau
DATE OF DEATH	October 29, 1937
Place of death	MinZhu , Shanghai

[1] tombstone project. In: www.shanghaijewishmemorial.com. Bar-Gal, Dvir, etc. a., 2006, accessed October 4, 2014 .

[2] 31. Exhibition of the Berlin Recession. In: www.vialibri.net. Corinth, Lovis, et al. a., accessed on October 4, 2016 .

[3] Catalog of the 34th exhibition of the Berlin Secession. Retrieved October 4, 2016 .

[4] Catalog of the 34th exhibition of the Berlin Recession. Retrieved October 4, 2016 .

[5] Deaths . Richard H. Taylor. In: The Reading Eagle . March 31, 1930 ( google.com [accessed October 4, 2016]).

[6] Berlinische Gallerie Museum of Modern Art: New Art Collection Samuel Margules. Retrieved December 23, 2018 .

[7] The last kilometer . A racing driver's confession. In: Hubert Miketta (Ed.): Revue of the month . November 1929, p. 27 ( illustrated-presse.de [accessed on October 4, 2016]).