Erwin Wilking

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Erwin Wilking (born January 15, 1899 in Dortmund , † April 4, 1945 in Castrop-Rauxel ) was a German landscape painter and etcher from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

From 1915 to 1917 Wilking was a student at the Düsseldorf School of Applied Arts . In 1918 he had an engagement as an actor in supporting roles at the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf under Gustav Lindemann . He attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1929 to 1934. Wilhelm Schmurr was his teacher there. Wilking was one of the "Eifel painters" who discovered Kronenburg in the 1920s and 1930s and settled there. He lived and worked as an “artist” in Düsseldorf . In 1920 he made his debut there in the gallery of Alfred Flechtheim . He also took part in major art exhibitions in Düsseldorf. In 1942 and 1943 Wilking was represented at the Great German Art Exhibition in the Haus der Kunst in Munich , and in 1943 with the painting Evening Hour in the Eifel .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Artist search : Letter W , website in the portal letter-stiftung .de
  2. ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
  3. ↑ Faust (theater ticket), performance on March 31, 1918, Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf ( digitized version )
  4. ↑ The Yellow Jacket (theater ticket), performance on May 23, 1918, Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf ( digitized version )
  5. ↑ Cornelia Stachnick: Rolf Dettmann (1915–1992). A painter and graphic artist from Kronenburg, Eifel . Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn 2000, p. 108
  6. ^ Address book of the city of Düsseldorf 1930 . Part 2, p. 606 ( digitized version )
  7. ↑ List of participants in the “Great German Art Exhibitions 1937–1944” in the House of German Art - Munich , website in the portal treffpunkt-kunst.net , accessed on April 6, 2020
  8. ^ Great German Art Exhibition 1943 . House of German Art, Munich 1943, p. 26
personal data
SURNAME Wilking, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter and etcher from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 1945
Place of death Castrop-Rauxel