Emmi Walther

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Two Angels by Emmi Walther, 1910, dedicated to her sister, The Jack Daulton Collection, Los Altos Hills, California
Girl on the water by Emmi Walther, approx. 1910, private collection

Emmi Louise Walther (born October 30, 1860 in Hamburg ; † September 11, 1936 in Dachau ) was a German painter, draftsman, watercolorist and craftsperson. Her stylized painting style is shaped by Art Nouveau and symbolism .

life and work

Emmi, also Emmy , Luise Walther grew up in a middle-class family. She received her first training in Hamburg from Friedrich Schwinge and in Hanover. It was not until she was over 30 that she turned seriously to the artist profession. In January 1896 she came to Munich, where she studied life drawing at Ludwig Schmid-Reutte's private painting school . In November she moved to Dachau and became a student of Adolf Hölzel . In 1899 she became friends with Emil Hansen (later Emil Nolde ), who also attended Adolf Hölzel's Dachau painting school during the summer. In the same year she traveled with him via Amsterdam to Paris.

During a study trip to Paris , she took lessons at a private painting school a. a. with Alphonse Mucha , who taught at the Académie Carmen . In Paris she also met Paula Becker and Clara Westhoff . In 1900 studies followed in the Breton coastal town of Concarneau and in the Worpswede artists' colony . Several letters document her friendly contact with Paula Modersohn-Becker and Otto Modersohn in the years 1901 to 1904. From 1916 on she lived permanently in Dachau. There she was one of the 44 founding members of the Dachau artist group in 1919 , from which the Dachau Artists' Association , which still exists today, emerged. She was also a specialist in artistic picture embroidery.

In Dachau, Emmy-Walther-Strasse commemorates the artist. Some of her works are owned by the Dachau Museum Association in the Dachau Gemäldegalerie .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1902: Permanent exhibition of the Kunstverein in Hamburg , in the small hall of the permanent exhibition at Neuer Wall 14 - student work from Dachau
  • 1903: Spring exhibition of the Munich Secession in the royal art exhibition building (today the State Collection of Antiquities ) - Tempera paintings: summer evening
  • 1904: Galerie Heinemann , Munich - paintings early spring , afternoon in the forest , gray May day and at the door
  • 1905: Large exhibition of the Kunstverein in Hamburg in the Hamburger Kunsthalle - Sold: Birken
  • 1905: Spring exhibition of the Munich Secession in the royal art exhibition building - two landscape studies and a landscape (oil pen drawing)
  • 1906: Spring exhibition of the Munich Secession in the royal art exhibition building - May evening (study)
  • 1908: Kunstverein in Hamburg - 7 paintings
  • 1910: XXXVII. Exhibition of the Vienna Secession - I. Exhibition of the Association of Austrian Women Artists - The Art of Women - Oil Painting: Group of White Poplars and May Day
  • 1912: Spring exhibition of the Munich Secession in the royal art exhibition building - autumn landscape (Dachau)
  • 1914: Collective exhibition in the Heinemann Gallery in Munich - At the door , Gray May day , early spring and afternoon in the forest
  • 1919: 1st exhibition by the Dachau artist group in Dachau Castle
  • 1922: 4th exhibition of the Dachau artist group in Dachau Castle
  • 1924: Art exhibition in Dachau Castle
  • 1928: First exhibition of the KVD (Artists' Association Dachau) summer art exhibition
  • 1930: Summer art exhibition in Dachau Castle
  • 1930: German Art Exhibition Munich in the Glaspalast - colored pen drawing Wacholder im Moos
  • 1932: Summer art exhibition in Dachau Castle
  • 1933: Summer art exhibition in Dachau Castle
  • 1934: Hundred years of Dachau art in Dachau Castle

Posthumously

  • 1937: Dachau country and people , memorial exhibition in Dachau Castle for Emmi Walther
  • 2008: The painting women in the Gemäldegalerie Dachau - oil paintings: Girls on the water and Moosbach

Works (selection)

  • A woman from Dachau in traditional costume , charcoal drawing, 32 × 23 cm, private collection
  • A May evening at the old parish square in Dachau , oil on canvas, 50 × 49 cm, private property
  • Where Spitzweg walked - summer play of midday light on the path of the ancient leaf walk in the Dachau courtyard garden , watercolor, 22 × 30 cm, private collection
  • Landscape motif, charcoal drawing, 54 × 44 cm, private collection
  • Laubgang II , oil on canvas, 34.8 × 42.5 cm, private collection

Publications

  • Home of the soul - moods in words and Image, 1922, Kostanz, R. Walther and Leipzig, HG Wallmann DNB 362407428
  • From day to day - moods in words and Picture, 1925, Kostanz, R. Walther DNB 362407436

literature

  • Ernst Rump : Lexicon of visual artists in Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area , Otto Bröcker & Co., Hamburg 1912, p. 149 (digitized version)
  • Walther, Emmi . 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. 121 .
  • Elisabeth Wirtz: In: Catalog for the memorial exhibition Emmi Walther 1860–1936 as part of the summer exhibition of the Artists' Association Dachau eV in the Dachau Castle, from June 20 to the beginning of October 1937.
  • Carl Thiemann : Memories of a Dachau Painter. Contributions to the history of Dachau as an artist's place. Dachau 1966, p. 20
  • Horst Heres: Picture gallery Dachau. Dachau 1985, pp. 155, 157, 277.
  • Ottilie Thiemann-Stoedtner, Gerhard Hanke : Dachauer painter. The art landscape from 1801-1946 . 2nd edition Dachau 1989, ISBN 3-89251-054-7 , pp. 272, 284, 352
  • Zweckverband Dachau Galleries and Museums (ed.): Anna Klein and other artists in Dachau around 1900. Dachau 2008, p. 29 f
  • Maike Bruhns : Walther, Emmi . In: The new rump. Lexicon of the visual artists of Hamburg . Ed .: Rump family. Revised new edition of Ernst Rump's dictionary. Supplemented and revised by Maike Bruhns, Wachholtz, Neumünster 2013, ISBN 978-3-529-02792-5 , p. 494

Web links

Commons : Emmi Walther  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Emmi Walther (Emmy Walther) in Ex-libris artist in Dachau
  2. ↑ Emmy-Walther-Strasse
  3. ↑ Exhibition 1902 in: Annual report of the art association in Hamburg for 1902 . P. 9 (PDF-P. 53). PDF file from kunstverein.de
  4. ↑ page 22 in the exhibition catalog (digitized online)
  5. ^ Galerie Heinemann, catalogs: catalog H1914_0303, p. 8
  6. ^ Large exhibition of the art association in the Hamburger Kunsthalle. In: Altonaer Nachrichten , April 14, 1905, p. 2
  7. ↑ page 26 in the exhibition catalog (digitized online)
  8. ↑ page 29 in the exhibition catalog (digitized online)
  9. ^ Exhibition February 1908 in: Annual report of the art association in Hamburg for 1908 . P. 9 (PDF-P. 70). PDF file from kunstverein.de
  10. ↑ page 33 in the exhibition catalog (digitized online)
  11. ↑ page 45 in the exhibition catalog (digitized online)
  12. ↑ page 37 in the exhibition catalog (digitized online)
  13. ↑ Heinemann 1914, exhibition catalog (digitized online), page 8
  14. ↑ At the door
  15. ↑ Gray May Day
  16. ↑ List of Castle Exhibitions, PDF file, page 1
  17. ↑ List of Castle Exhibitions, PDF file, page 1
  18. ↑ List of Castle Exhibitions, PDF file, page 1
  19. ↑ List of Castle Exhibitions, PDF file, page 2
  20. ↑ List of Castle Exhibitions, PDF file, page 2
  21. ↑ Exhibition catalog , Glaspalast 1930
  22. ↑ List of Castle Exhibitions, PDF file, page 3
  23. ↑ List of Castle Exhibitions, PDF file, page 3
  24. ↑ List of Castle Exhibitions, PDF file, page 3
  25. ↑ List of Castle Exhibitions, PDF file, page 4
  26. ↑ Information girls on the water
personal data
SURNAME Walther, Emmi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Walther, Emmi Louise; Walther, Emmy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1936
Place of death Dachau