Egon Wilden

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Egon Wilden, self-portrait with bow tie , around 1930

Egon Wilden (born December 8, 1894 in Düsseldorf , † September 7, 1931 in Ahlen , Westphalia province ) was a German painter and set designer .

Life

Wilden began studying at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1914 . Because of the First World War , he had to interrupt this course until 1919. One of his most important teachers at the Düsseldorf Academy was Heinrich Nauen , a representative of Rhenish Expressionism . These and other currents of his time shaped his artistic work, in which watercolor painting played a special role alongside pastel painting . He gained early recognition as a set designer, for example in the 1919/1920 season at the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf , which under Louise Dumont and Gustav Lindemann developed into one of the most modern German-speaking theaters. He had later engagements in Herne, Gera, Hagen, Barmen-Elberfeld and Cologne. Around 200 stage designs can be traced back to him. His stage designs are characterized by lively colors, often vertically emphasized, arched architecture from the front and spatial illusions staggered into the depths of the stage. In 1930 he left the stage to work as a freelance artist. Wilden was married to the actress Hedwig Sparrer. In January 1931 Wilden moved into a studio in an artist's house in Düsseldorf-Stockum. In the summer of the same year, his health deteriorated. During a recreational stay with friends in Ahlen, he died soon afterwards.

Wilden remained largely unknown until, in 2005, his niece donated a large collection of paintings and graphics by Wilden to the Ahlen Art Museum . Since then there have been a number of exhibitions with his works.

Works (selection)

  • Escape to Egypt , 1919
  • Two figures in the forest , watercolor, 1920
  • The love of God , watercolors (stage designs for Hermine von Boetticher's play of the same name), around 1920
  • The Barber of Seville , design for the Hagen Theater , 1924
  • Paul Kemp , portrait, pencil drawing, around 1925
  • Elektra , design for the Hagen Theater, 1927
  • Angelina , design for the Cologne Theater, 1929
  • Self-portrait with a bow tie , oil on wood, around 1930, Theater Studies Collection, University of Cologne
  • Martyrdom of St. Sebastian
  • Pieta
  • Flood of light
  • Rays
  • Trees in the light
  • Loneliness , watercolor
  • Grief , watercolor
  • Painter in the studio

literature

  • Elmar Buck (Ed.): Egon Wilden. Painter and set designer, 1894–1931 . Exhibition catalog of the theater studies collection of the University of Cologne, the Theater Museum Düsseldorf and the Ernst Osthaus Museum Hagen, Cologne 1994
  • Joachim Geil : Egon Wilden. The painter and the stage . Teiresias-Verlag, Cologne 1999, ISBN 978-3-98058-605-4
  • Burkhard Leismann (ed.), Kinga Luchs, Martina Padberg (editor): Egon Wilden. Life and Work, 1894–1931 . Förderkreis Kunstmuseum Ahlen eV, Hachmannedition Verlag, Bremen 2009, ISBN 978-3-93942-969-2

Web links

Commons : Egon Wilden  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Angelika Storm-Rusche: August Macke Haus presents works by the painter Egon Wilden . Article from January 29, 2010 in the portal general-anzeiger-bonn.de , accessed on January 15, 2016
  2. ↑ Andreas Rehnolt: exhibition on the work of the painter Egon Wilden: August Macke Haus in Bonn presents "between studio and stage" . Website from January 30, 2010 in the musenblaetter.de portal , accessed on January 15, 2016
  3. ↑ Wild Egon Wilden , website from December 19, 2012 in the blogs.harvard.edu portal , accessed on January 15, 2016
  4. ^ Egon Wilden - Between the studio and the stage . Article (2010) in the portal archiv.monopol-magazin.de , accessed on January 15, 2016
  5. ↑ Egon Wilden: "The Love of God", around 1920 ( memento of the original from September 25, 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.von-zezschwitz.de
personal data
SURNAME Savages, Egon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and set designer
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 1931
Place of death Awls