Carl Wiederhold

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Carl Wiederhold (full name Ernst Carl Heinrich Wiederhold ; born August 2, 1863 in Hanover , † August 25, 1961 in Bückeburg ) was a German painter .

Wiederhold's work “Germania on the Sea” was exhibited in the Military History Museum of the German Armed Forces in Dresden as part of the special exhibition there “The fleet falls asleep in the port” until October 2015.

Life

Carl Wiederhold was born as the eldest of two sons of Johann Jakob Wiederhold, a tailor from Hesse , and his wife Martha Christine née. Knies was born in Hanover (Breitestrasse 19c). After finishing school, he began a four-year apprenticeship with the decorator and court coat of arms painter Anton Juergens and then attended the training institute of the trade association in Hanover.

From 1884 to 1887 he studied architecture at the Technical University of Hanover . His teachers there were among others Friedrich Kaulbach for figure drawing and life drawing, Hubert Stier for ornamentation and from 1886 Gustav Schönermark for iconography .

After completing his studies, he received a state scholarship until 1890 for the specialist class “for decorative painting and figurative decoration” at the Berlin Museum of Applied Arts . During this time (1888) he took part in the art-historical inventory of Wilhelmsburg Castle in Schmalkalden . In 1892 he traveled for eight months through Italy , in 1895 he took lessons from the genre and portrait painter Harald Friedrich (1858–1933).

On April 27, 1900, he and his friend Friedrich Koch were accepted as a senior journeyman to the White Sheet building works founded by Conrad Wilhelm Hase , to which his teacher and sponsor Gustav Schönermark was already a member. In 1905 he received the championship title there and remained a member of this hut brotherhood until the end of his life. At the same time (1900) he took up a part-time teaching activity at the Hanover School of Applied Arts , where he taught color theory, free-hand drawing, head studies and life drawing, ornament drawing and decorative painting until 1930. His students included Ernst Pingel (1907–1979) and Karl Rüter . At his suggestion, Kurt Sohns became his successor.

During the Second World War , the apartment and studio in the southern part of Hanover (Bürgermeister-Fink-Strasse 28) were destroyed in a bomb attack on the night of October 8th to 9th, 1943. All paintings in his possession, which made up the largest part of his oeuvre, were destroyed. As a result, Carl Wiederhold moved to Bückeburg (Trompeterstrasse 28) in the house of his goddaughter Karla Schramm and her sister Anna, the nieces of his painter friend Friedrich Koch. Carl Wiederhold worked in the attic apartment until the end of his life and was looked after and cared for by the Schramm sisters during this time.

On August 25, 1961, he died unmarried at the age of 98 in Bückeburg. He was buried there in the cemetery of the Evangelical Lutheran parish on Scheier Strasse.

Exhibitions

During his lifetime

  • Great Berlin Art Exhibition (1904)
  • German National Exhibition in Düsseldorf (1907)
  • German Art Exhibition Bremen (1908)
  • Exhibitions in the Kestner Society in Hanover (1917 and more often)
  • Exhibitions at the Kunstverein Hannover (1940 and more), 1958 special exhibition of 82 works on the occasion of his 95th birthday
  • Amsterdam
  • Paris

After the artist's death

  • Group exhibition of the Schaumburg-Lippischen Heimatverein, Bückeburg (1975)
  • Exhibition by the City of Hanover, Kubus Gallery, Hanover (1979)

Works

Publicly owned works

Interior view of St. Pankratius Church , at the far end the altar with the image of the Last Supper

Works in private ownership

  • Schützenstraße 1 (Bamberg) Ceiling painting (behind glass painting), fresco in the logia, overhang painting and frieze on canvas (nailed on)

Monumental paintings that have not been preserved or are no longer visible

  • Painting of the old town church Hofgeismar (1898/99, no longer visible since the restoration around 1960, today's existence unexplained)
  • Draft for the painting of the St. Laurentius Church Freden an der Leine (1906, today only a small area of ​​a curtain painting is visible)
  • Wall painting in the Johanneskirche Gießen (1903, destroyed during renovation work after 1962)
  • Ceiling painting in the meeting room of the Dresdner Bank in Hanover (possible existence today unexplained, possibly covered by a suspended ceiling)
  • Ceiling painting in the presidential room of the justice building in Hanover (1911, today's existence unexplained, possibly whitewashed)
  • Mural in the stairwell of the Hildesheim waterworks (building destroyed in 1945)
  • Ceiling painting of the Unter-Neustädter Church Kassel (1896, destroyed 1943)
  • Mural in the reception hall of the Kreissparkasse Peine (not detectable today, probably destroyed during renovations after 1945)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Manfred Koenig: The painter Carl Wiederhold. Notes on biography and work. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter. New series Volume 59, Hanover 2005, pp. 63–82, here: p. 64.
  2. ↑ Their grave is located in the city ​​cemetery Hannover-Stöcken , department 15 B, grave site 39. The grave monument was restored in 2005. The stele has been included in the list of cultural monuments of the city of Hanover by the Lower Saxony State Office for Monument Preservation .
  3. ^ Manfred Koenig: Carl Wiederhold, a teacher of Ernst Pingel. In: Angelika Weber, Uwe Harnack (ed.): Ernst Pingel - An artist's life in Uelzen. (Volume accompanying the commemorative exhibition on the occasion of the 100th birthday from June 17 to August 26, 2007) Uelzen 2007, ISBN 3-929864-11-8 , p. 49.
  4. ↑ Dirk Böttcher: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon. From the beginning to the present. (Entry on Kurt Sohns on p. 337).
  5. ↑ Participants in the exhibition ( memento of April 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Kunsthalle Bremen , accessed on September 17, 2009
  6. ↑ Doris Böker: The equipment of the Evangelical Church in Balhorn - a rare example of a preserved neo-baroque church equipment from the 19th century. (Expert opinion January 2003), on the ( page no longer available , search in web archives: website of the Förderverein ), accessed on September 17, 2009.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.habenmalerei-balhorn.de
personal data
SURNAME Repeat, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wiederhold, Ernst Carl Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1961
Place of death Buckeburg