Eberhard Viegener

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Eberhard Viegener (born May 30, 1890 in Soest ; † May 4, 1967 in Bilme ) was a German expressionist and representative of the New Objectivity as well as a decorative and landscape painter.

Life

After finishing school, Viegener completed an apprenticeship as a painter in his father's company from 1904 to 1906. In 1907 he spent an apprenticeship year in Hagen, which he used to study at the Folkwang Museum . From 1908 to 1912 he worked in his father's painting business, from 1912 to 1913 he was a house painter in Zurich. From 1913 to 1914 he was a self-taught freelance artist in Klosters . From 1933 he was banned from exhibiting. From 1920 he lived in Bilme near Soest.

In 1914 he returned to Soest with around 25 small-format pictures. Viegener was on friendly terms with the artists Arnold Topp , Wilhelm Morgner and Wilhelm Wulff and was influenced by their painting style. He was not called up for military service because of poor health. In 1916 he had his first exhibition participation in the jury free .

In 1919 he got a contract with the Düsseldorf gallery owner Alfred Flechtheim , which resulted in the graphic portfolios: Passion , Dance of Death , The Moon over Soest , Sauerland , as well as numerous individual sheets.

In 1920 he married the former actress Cecilia Brie, who was married to Paul Henckels' first marriage . She was the daughter of the constitutional lawyer Siegfried Brie . The couple had three children; Felix (also called Tobias) (* 1922, † 2000), Vincent and Amanda.

Viegener took part in exhibitions in Münster, Recklinghausen, Barmen and Bochum. From 1927 to 1930 he took part in the jury-free art exhibition in Berlin.

He was close friends with the painter and graphic artist Bruno Beye . Already at the beginning of the 30s Viegener changed his style and painted realistic landscapes. In the fall of 1937, some of his early works a. a. confiscated from the museums in Soest, Dortmund and Wuppertal-Barmen.

In 1934 he founded the Eberhard Viegener Society in Dortmund. In 1938 one of his works was shown at the Berlin exhibition Degenerate Art . Regardless of this, he was able to continue to present his work at exhibitions.

From 1945 to 1966 he took part in over fifty solo and group exhibitions. In 1946, together with Herta Hesse, the then director of the Karl-Ernst Osthaus-Museum and Wilhelm Wessel, he founded the West German Artists' Association , an association of painters, graphic artists , sculptors, photographers and media artists in North Rhine-Westphalia, whose chairman was from 1947.

In 1954 he married Annemarie Mehlhemmer (1916–2003), who was also a painter under the name Annemarie Viegener. He was the brother of the painter and sculptor Fritz Viegener and the photographer Joseph Viegener, who lives in Hamm / Westphalia.

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions (excerpt)

  • 1986 De Marées a Picasso: Obras Maestras Del Museo Wuppertal - Fundación Juan March, Madrid
  • Group exhibition: Perspectives Autumn / Winter - 2007/2008 - Pictures - Objects - Sculptures
  • 2010–2015 world views. Landscape in Art since the 17th Century , Situation Art Foundation, Bochum; Kunsthalle zu Kiel; Museum Wiesbaden; Chemnitz art collections; Museum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus; Bonnefanten Museum Maastricht; New Museum Weserburg Bremen; Rostock art gallery
  • 2010–2011 Westphalian Expressionism in the Kunsthalle Bielefeld

Public collections

Honors

  • In Soest was Eberhard Viegener path named after him
  • 1947 Karl Ernst Osthaus Prize from the city of Hagen
  • 1960 Appointment as professor by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia

literature

  • Viegener, Eberhard . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 34 : Urliens – Vzal . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1940, p. 334-335 .
  • Author: Viegener, Eberhard . 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. 32 .
  • Bernhard Kerber: The painter Eberhard Viegener . Mocker & Jahn, Soest 1982.
  • Worldviews. Landscape in art since the 17th century , exhibition cat. Situation Art Foundation, Bochum u. a., ed. by Silke von Berswordt-Wallrabe and Volker Rattemeyer, Bochum and Cologne 2010, p. 345.
  • Klaus Kösters: Eberhard Viegener (1890–1967) . In: Klaus Kösters (ed.): Adaptation - Survival - Resistance: Artists in National Socialism . Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-402-12924-1 , pp. 226-234.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ense Press, accessed February 4, 2011
  2. ↑ Viegener accessed May 22, 2015
  3. ^ Westphalian Expressionism, accessed February 2, 2011
  4. ↑ Eberhard Viegener Weg in Soest, accessed February 4, 2011
  5. ^ Osthaus Prize, accessed February 4, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Viegener, Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German expressionist, painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Soest
DATE OF DEATH May 4th 1967
Place of death Bilme