Emil Waldmann (painter)

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Emil Waldmann (2004) in a conversation with participants during a painting course.

Emil Waldmann (born April 10, 1925 in Fürth , Middle Franconia , Bavaria ; † November 4, 2012 in Bad Brückenau , Lower Franconia ) was a German painter and graphic artist . He is considered to be one of the most outstanding European landscape watercolorists at the end of the 20th century.

Life

Waldmann as a soldier during the Second World War

Waldmann was drafted into military service at the age of 17 (1942) during World War II , fought on the Eastern Front and was taken prisoner of war. After the war, in the late 1940s, he studied painting and graphics in Nuremberg and Fürth under Franz Pfister and Hermann Gradl . Gradl was immediately dismissed from office as director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg after the end of the war because of his career in National Socialist Germany . Waldmann took private lessons from him.

After his training, Waldmann mainly worked in oil, oil glaze , tempera , gouache , watercolor and mixed media. From 1946 to 1962 he worked almost exclusively for the art trade and for galleries in Nuremberg, Detmold , Paderborn and Munich . For six years he directed the “Galerie Wormser” in Nuremberg.

After 20 years of oil painting, Waldmann turned exclusively to watercolor painting around 1975. He himself cites the reason: “What appeals to me is the finality of the technology. You can't improve anything, change colors, iron out a wrong line without spoiling the luminosity of the colors. Washing out makes you dull, dull and spoils the clarity of a watercolor: Anyone who dedicates himself to watercolor decides to have the courage to be more secure. "

Emil Waldmann (2010) at his last exhibition " Retrospective "

Since around 1990, Waldmann has been giving watercolor courses in various southern German cities such as in his long-term residence in Aindling near Augsburg, Nuremberg, Neuburg an der Donau and Bad Tölz .

In 2004 Waldmann moved with his wife Gabriele, who was also artistically active, to the Biedermeier baths in Bad Bocklet ( Bad Kissingen district ), where he still gave painting courses when he was over 80. He has also been a lecturer at the Bad Reichenhall Art Academy since 2004 .

Waldmann spent his last months in a retirement home in Bad Brückenau, where he died on November 4, 2012 after a short illness in a clinic. His urn was buried under a beech tree in the "Ruheforst Rhön" in Eckarts .

Memberships

Exhibitions

In 1962 he first took part in the Great Swabian Art Exhibition in Augsburg. Over 50 solo and numerous group exhibitions in Germany, Europe ( Russia , Poland , France ) and overseas ( Japan , People's Republic of China ) followed. After German reunification (1989) he also exhibited in the new federal states .

His solo exhibitions in various cities in Germany were each dedicated to specific topics such as Via Appia Antica , floodplains worthy of protection (with the European floodplain institute WWF ), Norway , southern Sweden , Santorin , Valais , Yugoslavia , meditation, Fuerteventura , Mark Brandenburg , several times Theodor Fontane (“ Walks through the Mark Brandenburg ”), flowers and Venice .

There was a retrospective of his works from 65 years of artistic activity from September 5 to 19, 2010 in the Kurhaus of the Biedermeier baths in Bad Bocklet. This was Waldmann's last exhibition.

Works in public collections (selection)

  • Gallery of the Bayerische Landesbank , Munich and in the Berlin branch, Unter den Linden
  • Collection of the "Banco di Sicilia"
  • German Judges Academy (for the Wustrau and Trier conference venues , from the Fontane cycle)
  • Fontane Museum in Neuruppin (for the preacher's widow's house , from the Fontane cycle)
  • District Court Neuruppin (from the Fontane cycle)
  • Municipality of Arnstein (the pictures from the book "Der Korkenzieherfinger" by Gabriele Waldmann - see "Publications")
  • Gallery at the Comedy, Augsburg
  • Landesversicherungsanstalt Schwaben, Augsburg (from the series " Lechauen ")
  • District Office Aichach-Friedberg , Augsburg (from the series "Lechauen")
  • Saab Center Augsburg (from the cycle " Via Appia ")
  • Evangelical Lutheran Church Congregation St. Johannis (Nuremberg) (from "Light of the North - Light of the South")
  • Management of Sparkasse München (order: twelve well-known and popular cityscapes from Munich )
  • Management of the Kreissparkasse and Giroverband München (pictures of the Isar floodplains and Osterseen )
  • Motherhouse of the BRK in Munich (" Göta Canal " cycle )
  • Women's clinic from the Red Cross Munich for the medical congress center ("Göta Canal" cycle)
  • City administration Landshut (Landshut and its Isar floodplains)
  • Sparkasse Landshut (Landshut and its Isar floodplain)
  • Galerie Ruf, Kulturzentrum am Gasteig , Munich (from the Fontane cycle)
  • Armory Augsburg (from the series "Lechauen" and Haspelmoor )

Publications

  • Bavarian landscapes worth protecting. River floodplains - wetlands - moors . Watercolors by Emil Waldmann, additional information from the WWF- Auen Institute. WWF-Auen-Institut, Emil and Gabriele Waldmann (eds.), Donauwörth, Rastatt 1988. (Catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the "Galerie der Bayerische Landesbank" in Munich).
  • A trip to the north (calendar for a trip to Norway with twelve pictures and twelve calendar stories by Gabriele Waldmann), Donauwörth 1990.
  • In Fontane's footsteps, a hike through the Mark Brandenburg , Augsburg 1995. (Catalog for the exhibitions of the same name in Gera, Trier, Wustrau, Neuruppin and Munich).
  • Gabriele Waldmann (text) and Emil Waldmann (illustrations): The corkscrew finger. Happy and serious things looking back on the Franconian home of a child , Presse-Druck, Augsburg 1995. ISBN 3-00-000083-6 .
  • Emil Waldmann: Aquarelle (specialist book), Norderstedt 2005. ISBN 978-3-8334-2838-8 .

literature

  • Sigismund von Dobschütz: He can do landscapes in his sleep , in: Main-Post from October 5, 2010 He can do landscapes in his sleep , Main Post
  • Gisela Goblirsch-Bürkert: Capturing intense impressions on paper through targeted abstraction , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ), January 8, 1993, SV

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personal data
SURNAME Waldmann, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Fürth , Middle Franconia, Bavaria
DATE OF DEATH 4th November 2012
Place of death Bad Bocklet , Lower Franconia