Erich Wessel

Erich Wessel (born April 26, 1906 in Hamburg ; † May 21, 1985 ibid) was a German painter and graphic artist who worked in Hamburg.

biography

Wessel did an apprenticeship as a decorative painter from 1921 to 1924 before studying with Arthur Illies at the Hamburg School of Applied Arts (now the Hamburg University of Fine Arts ) . From 1929 he worked as a freelancer in a studio on Karolinenstraße and from 1933 on St. Anscharplatz and from 1938 on Rothenbaumchaussee. Until 1939 he went on study trips to Italy, Belgium, Holland and Denmark.

During World War II he was a soldier in Wildeshausen and Denmark. From 1950 he had a job at the school for the clothing industry and was a lecturer at the Volkshochschule Hamburg until 1976.

Works

At first he only worked as a landscape painter , from the mid-1930s also as a portrait painter . In the 1920s, influences of the New Objectivity in figure paintings , later oil and watercolor painting in a relaxed late impressionist way, shaped his work, which also took the atmospheric into account. The north German landscape, the heath, views of Hamburg, Lüneburg or Stade as well as the port of Hamburg offered motifs. His main work was a 15-picture cycle, the Panorama of the City of Hamburg, 1966–1970.

literature

• Kay Rump (ed.), Maike Bruhns (edit.): The new Rump. Lexicon of visual artists in Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area , Wachholtz Verlag, Hamburg / Neumünster 2013, ISBN 978-3-529-02792-5 (p. 491)
• Hans Vollmer: General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. Fifth volume: VZ , EA Seemann, Leipzig 1999. ISBN 3-363-00730-2 (p. 117)

Web links

• artnet.de: Erich Wessel (1906-1985) (accessed on May 29, 2015)