Eugen Windmüller
Eugen Windmüller (born December 29, 1842 in Marienwerder ; † September 13, 1927 in Düsseldorf ) was a German genre and landscape painter . He belongs to the Düsseldorf School of Painting .
Life
Windmüller was born in Marienwerder in West Prussia , a small town on the river Liebe and five kilometers from the Vistula . The town was connected to the famous town of Thorn by a railway line . Little is known about Windmüller's life. In 1864 he painted his first portrait (study head; portrait of a young girl) in Wippel .
Windmüller was a student at the Art School in Gdansk . From 1862 he attended the art academy in Berlin and between 1863 and 1869 also the art academy in Düsseldorf .
Works
- 1864: "First study head painted by Eugen Windmüller fecit Wippel 1864", oil on cardboard, 31.0 × 27.0 cm.
- 1866: “Portrait of a young girl with dark hair”, oil on cardboard, 25.5 × 25.5 cm.
- 1907: “View of Cologne on the Rhine”, oil on panel, 18.0 × 27.0 cm.
- before 1910: "Landscape", oil, Görlitz Art Museum (formerly Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum Görlitz)
- 1910: “Der Heiligen Johannes” (summer resort idyll in the forest with a canopy-protected wayside shrine with the statue of St. John Nepomuk and summer visitors at the stop), oil on canvas, 25.5 × 34.0 cm (old framed 42.0 × 53.0 cm, private collection, Cologne)
- 1914: “Inside the church with a figure of Mary and a clergyman reading documents”, oil on panel
- "The Venus pond in the garden of the artists' association Malkasten in Düsseldorf"
- "Romantic monastery garden with Francis column", oil on canvas, 35.5 × 25.5 cm
- "Dorf am Fluss", oil on cardboard, 41.0 × 58.0 cm (with frame)
- "Weingut in Klausen", oil on panel, 51.0 cm × 62.0 cm (with frame)
literature
- Windmüller, Eugene. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 2/2, sheets 33–67: Saal – Zwengauer. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1901, p. 1024 ( archive.org ).
- Windmüller, Eugene . 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.
Web links
- Eugen Windmüller , artnet .de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Windmüller, Eugene |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 29, 1842 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Marienwerder |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 13, 1927 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |