Erwin Günther (painter)

Erwin Günther in his studio at Gartenstrasse 101 in Düsseldorf, 1904

Erwin Carl Wilhelm Günther , also in the spelling Günter (born June 14, 1864 in Hamburg , † 1927 in Düsseldorf ), was a German landscape and marine painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Sailors on the coast , Albert König Museum

Günther studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There was Olof Jernberg his teacher. In Düsseldorf, where he became a member of the artists' association Malkasten , he established himself as a marine painter. He made numerous trips in Europe, from 1890 to the Netherlands, also to Egypt and other countries in Africa. Since 1891 he was represented at exhibitions in the Munich Glass Palace and since 1893 at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition . He made large decorative wall paintings for the German shipping pavilion at the Paris World Exhibition in 1900 .

literature

• Günther, Erwin Carl Wilhelm . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 203 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

Commons : Erwin Carl Wilhelm Günter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Erwin Carl Wilhelm Günther , data sheet in the rkd.nl portal( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
• Erwin Carl Wilhelm Günther , Auction Results on artnet .de
• Günther, Erwin, marine painter, Gartenstr. 101 , in address book for the city of Düsseldorf 1905, p. 201

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Inventory list , website in the malkasten.org portal , accessed on November 11, 2016
2. ^ Friedrich Schaarschmidt : On the history of Düsseldorf art, especially in the XIX. Century . Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, Düsseldorf 1902, p. 353 ( digitized version )