Bernhard Wiegandt

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rua São Clemente, Rio de Janeiro , 1884
Jacobihalle in Bremen , drawing 1890

Bernhard Wiegandt (born May 13, 1851 in Cologne , † May 28, 1918 in Bremen ; by all first names Bernhard Friedrich Wilhelm Wiegandt ) was a German painter, set designer and art teacher.

biography

Wiegandt was the son of a carpenter who died early. Johannes Niessen , the Cologne history and church painter and curator of the Wallraf-Richartz Museum first gave him drawing lessons. From 1870 to 1873 he trained as a theater painter in Berlin and then worked as a set designer for the theater in Hanover .

At the invitation of his brother, he lived in Brazil from 1875 to 1880, where he recorded his impressions mainly in watercolors. (eg, "Belém", aquarelle, collection Museu de Arte do Rio / MAR, donation Max Perlingeiro)

He then briefly studied at the Düsseldorf Academy and then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Gyula Benczúr and Ludwig von Löfftz (entry into the nature class in February 1881).

In 1890 Wiegandt settled in Bremen, where from then on he painted and also gave lessons: from 1893 to 1895, the young Paula Modersohn-Becker was one of his students. He created the portfolio The picturesque Bremen in 1890 . He had contacts with the artists in Worpswede . Fischerhude's particular picturesque charms prompted him to set up a studio there in 1902, which he used during the summer months. In addition to Bremen, Worpswede and Fischerhude, he painted landscapes and architecture in the heath, on the North Sea coast and on Heligoland . Travels also took him to Norway , the Rhön and Thuringia . He illustrated festschrifts for the mayor Heinrich Claussen , the writer Heinrich Bulthaupt and the chief building director Ludwig Franzius, among others . He made drawings for bronze casts . Pattern drawings for the Delmenhorster linoleum works are also known. He also restored oil paintings, including in the upper Bremen town hall . He also decorated various ceilings and walls at the New Town Hall; here the late work of Bremen hangs from the Weserwehr . He made copies of oil paintings and maps of the city area.

Wiegandt was critical of newer art movements. He felt misunderstood and became depressed in old age. He recovered a little in Oyten-Sagehorn and painted a few things before he was admitted to the Osterholz-Ellen mental hospital in 1917 , where he died in 1918.

Artist family

His two daughters Bertha Wiegandt (1889–1977) and Else Wiegandt (1894–1985) also devoted themselves to painting. They were trained by the father. Berta was an excellent portraitist, Else specialized in animal pictures and also painted portraits. Both exhibited in Berlin. His nephew was the painter Fritz Stuckenberg .

literature

Web links

Commons : Bernhard Wiegandt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d see web link Alice Gudera: Biography Bernhard Friedrich Wilhelm Wiegandt (Bernhard)
  2. ↑ AdBK matriculation database
  3. ↑ see web link biography Paula Modersohn-Becker
  4. ↑ see web link Alice Gudera: Biography Dorothea Gertrude Elisabeth Wiegandt (Else)
personal data
SURNAME Wiegandt, Bernhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wiegandt, Bernhard Friedrich Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, set designer and art teacher
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1918
Place of death Bremen