Ernst Wolff-Malm
Ernst Wolff-Malm (born April 29, 1885 in Basel , † December 30, 1940 in Wiesbaden ) was a German painter and graphic artist.
biography
Ernst Wolff-Malm was the second of six children of the businessman Franz Wolff (1845–1906) and his wife Isabella, b. Malm (1862-1946), born. In 1895 his family moved from Basel to Wiesbaden. Ernst Wolff-Malm studied from 1906 to 1908 at the Grand Ducal Baden Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe with the landscape painter Gustav Schönleber and the animal and landscape painter Julius Bergmann , in the second year as his master student .
In 1908 Wolff-Malm showed 50 works, mostly landscapes, in the Wiesbaden gallery Banger. From 1910 he exhibited at the exhibitions of the Nassauischer Kunstverein eV in Wiesbaden.
After completing his studies, he spent 1912 to 1914 on a scholarship in Rome . There he was influenced by Arnold Böcklin and Hans von Marées . From 1912 to 1913 he created a fresco on the inner front wall of the swimming pool of the Kaiser-Friedrich-Bad in Wiesbaden.
Wolff-Malm took part in the First World War as an infantryman and suffered an upper arm wound.
From 1936, Ernst Wolff-Malm adapted his work to the guidelines of the National Socialist conception of art. At the autumn exhibition of the Hesse-Nassau district in Frankfurt's Römer in 1936, his painting "Mädchen im Heu" was described by critics as the highlight of the exhibition. The painting "Penthesilea" was bought by Hitler in 1938 at the Great German Art Exhibition in the Haus der Kunst in Munich .
In 1937 he created mosaics for the new rooms of the fountain colonnade . In 1938 he designed twelve over- portals with signs of the zodiac in the theater colonnade.
literature
- Wolff-Malm, Ernst . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947, p. 219 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Deutsches Wollen , November 22, 1936, No. 47, p. 11.
Web links
- Ernst Wolff-Malm in the city dictionary of Wiesbaden
- Ernst Wolff-Malm in the artist database kunst-und-kultur.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wolff-Malm, Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 29, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Basel |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 30, 1940 |
| Place of death | Wiesbaden |