Carl Weidemeyer

Carl Weidemeyer, around 1912

Carl Weidemeyer , also Carlo Weidemeyer (born May 21, 1882 in Bremen , † April 18, 1976 in Ascona ) was a German artist and architect .

Life

Attending school in Bremen was followed by an apprenticeship as a bricklayer and a short course at the Bremen building trade school . After working for a Bremen architect for a year, Weidemeyer turned to the artistic training he had been striving for earlier, but it was also unsatisfactory.

In 1905 he settled in Worpswede and became friends with Heinrich, Martha and Mieke Vogeler , Paula and Otto Modersohn , other members of the artists' colony and their guests. In the following years he was mainly active in the graphic and arts and crafts field. He sent exhibitions and received positive feedback from the critics. One of the most important clients was Insel Verlag , for whom he designed several books, as well as bookplates and other commercial graphic works. Up to the beginning of the First World War and the military service, a few more plastic experiments were made (such as the "Bremen toy", which he designed for the United Workshops for Art in Crafts ) and his own house in Worpswede. From 1920 to 1922 he headed the Bremen branch of the Berlin art dealer Neumann. After the war, Weidemeyer apparently found it difficult to resume his old work in Worpswede. He sold the property in 1923 and lived in Bremen again or was on extensive trips.

Finally he settled in Willingen (Upland) , where he turned more than before to architectural tasks, which he solved in the sense of the homeland style or national romanticism. The acquaintance of the Löhnberg family was probably brought about by Heinrich Vogeler , who had furnished their house in Hamm and designed the holiday home in Willingen. It was there that he should have met the Bachrach family (Mrs. Löhnberg and Mrs. Bachrach were sisters) with their daughter, the dancer Charlotte Bara .

After visiting the Weißenhofsiedlung in Stuttgart , he turned to the architecturally leading modernism, which he enforced with his Teatro San Materno for Charlotte Bara and some private buildings in Ticino. Until 1935 he worked mainly as an architect, after which he designed furniture and returned to graphic work.

After 1948 he worked exclusively as a painter, only interrupted by his participation in the puppet theater and in amateur performances in the Teatro San Materno. Most recently he lived in seclusion in Ascona. Carl Weidemeyer was a member of the German Association of Artists .

San Materno Theater

Grave of Carl Weidemeyer in Ascona

Works

buildings

• House Fischer, Korbach (1926 for Eduard and Maria Fischer)
• Teatro San Materno , Ascona (1927–1928 for Paul Bachrach and his daughter Charlotte Bara )
• Casa Haas, Ascona (1928 for Max and Albert Haas)
• Casa Fontanelle (Casa Hahn), Ronco sopra Ascona (1928 and 1931 for Michaelsen and Hahn)
• Casa Tutsch, Ronco sopra Ascona (1928 and 1931 for Fritsch and Tutsch)
• Casa Rocca Vispa (Casa Mez), Ascona (1930 for Hermann Mez)
• Casa Andrea Cristoforo (Casa Schulthess), Ascona (1931 for Maria Schulthess)
• Villa Chiara (Villa Oppenheimer), Ascona (1934–1935 for Clemens Oppenheimer)
• Casa Bonvenuto, Ascona (1935 for Clemens Oppenheimer)
• Casa Wels, Ascona (approx. 1935 for Grete Wels)

painting

• Farmer's wife fetching peat ( Kunsthalle Bremen )
• Still life with roses, 1949 (Kunsthalle Bremen)

literature

• Weidemeyer, Carl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 35 : Libra-Wilhelmson . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1942, p. 265 .
• Weidemeyer, Carl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 97 .
• Vanessa Giannò Talamona: Carl Weidemeyer. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Ralph Jentsch: Carlo Weidemeyer. Art gallery, Esslingen and Museo Communale, Ascona 1972.
• Letizia Tedeschi, Bruno Maurer (Ed.): Carl Weidemeyer (1882–1976). Artist and architect between Worpswede and Ascona. Skira, Milan 2001.

Web links

• Publications by and about Carl Weidemeyer in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
• Literature by and about Carl Weidemeyer in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Nils Aschenbeck: Time for everything beautiful [about Anna Goetze]. In: Weser-Kurier , March 17, 1993, p. 19.
2. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Weidemeyer, Carl ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on January 6, 2017)