Carl Weisgerber

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Carl Weisgerber (born October 25, 1891 in Ahrweiler ; † February 22, 1968 in Düsseldorf ) was a German landscape and animal painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Carl Weisgerber was born in 1891 in the town of Ahrweiler in the Ahr Valley, which is characterized by viticulture and tourism, as the fourth child of the married couple Carl Hubert and Elisabeth Weisgerber. Carl Weisgerber grew up in Ahrweiler with his four siblings Maria, Anna, Elisabeth and Wilhelm at Niederhutstraße 23. Another brother Heinrich Weisgerber had died giving birth in 1887.

The Weisgerber family owned an upholstery and saddlery shop in Ahrweiler , in which all Weisgerber children, including young Carl, had to help. According to oral reports from the family, Carl's artistic talent became apparent early on. Supported by his father Carl Hubert's passion for amateur theater, he began to illustrate the theater stages as a set painter , and he also spent his free time with hunters and foresters in the forest and on the hunt. He began to prepare and draw animals, but stayed in his parents' workshop. Gouaches and pastels with Ahr valley and Ahrweiler motifs from this period have been preserved.

At the age of 26 or 27, Willy Spatz became aware of the young talent. Encouraged and supported by Spatz, Weisgerber applied to the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1918. He was registered for the first time in Düsseldorf on January 4, 1919. Weisberger studied in Max Clarenbach's landscape class at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . He later switched to animal painting in the class of Julius Paul Junghanns , and Weisgerber probably finished his studies in 1922/1923. A lifelong friendship connected him with the animal painter Georg Wolf , who had also studied with Junghanns.

On February 7, 1924, he married the one from Oberwesel-St. Goar-born Amalie Mathilde Hirsch, in 1927 the couple's only son was born. Weisgerber spent his entire artistic life in Düsseldorf, interrupted by stays in the Ahr valley, in the Eifel and in the vicinity of Adenau as well as trips to Holland, East Frisia, Sweden, Tyrol and what was then Yugoslavia.

Weisgerber is one of the artists who were involved in the exhibitions of the Young Rhineland , the Rhine Group and the Rhenish Secession and was a member of the Association of Düsseldorf Artists . His oil painting Wintertag am Niederrhein must have been acquired by Adolf Hitler for 3,500 RM at the Great German Art Exhibition in 1941/1942 .

He died in Düsseldorf on February 22, 1968 and was buried in the cemetery in Düsseldorf-Heerdt .

Exhibitions

Group exhibitions
  • The western front. 1933, Essen (with Otto Pankok, Heinrich Nauen, Peter August Böckstiegel, August Macke, Franz Marc and Lehmbruck, patronage and inspection by Joseph Goebbels )
  • 1941: Large German art exhibition in the House of German Art in Munich
  • 1942: Large German art exhibition in the House of German Art in Munich
  • 1943: Exhibition “ Young Art in the German Empire ” in the Vienna Künstlerhaus
  • 1943: Large German art exhibition in the House of German Art in Munich
  • 1944: Large German art exhibition in the House of German Art in Munich
  • Herbert Griebitz / Carl Weisgerber. November 30, 1964 to January 24, 1965, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf

Awards

literature

  • Weisgerber, Carl . 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. 102 .
  • Bernhard Kreutzberg: The painter Carl Weisgerber, son of the city of Ahrweiler (1891–1968). Ahrweiler 1984.
  • Heike Wernz-Kaiser: Carl Weisgerber - one of the most successful painters in the Ahr region . In: Heimatjahrbuch Kreis Ahrweiler , 2011, pp. 88–91 ( PDF ).
  • Heike Wernz-Kaiser (ed.): Carl Weisgerber (1891–1968), animal and landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School of Painting. Ahrweiler 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annette Baumeister: List of artists who were involved in the exhibitions of the Young Rhineland, the Rhine Group and the Rhenish Secession between 1919 and 1933. At www.eifel-und-kunst.de. accessed on June 14, 2913. Quoted in: Sandra Labs: Johanna Ey and the avant-garde of the Düsseldorf art scene. Diplomica, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-8428-8121-1 . P. 91.
  2. ^ Ines Schlenker: Adolf Hilter's Purchases at the GDK, 1937–1944. In: dies .: Hitler's Salon. Peter Lang, 2007. p. 251.
  3. ↑ Sabine Maria Schmidt: Kniefall der Moderne. Reception and destruction of the Great Kneeling by Wilhelm Lehmbruck. In: Uwe Fleckner (Ed.): The ostracized masterpiece - fateful paths of modern art in the »Third Reich«. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-05-004360-9 . P. 236
  4. ↑ cubic
personal data
SURNAME Weisgerber, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape and animal painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Ahrweiler
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1968
Place of death Dusseldorf