Ferdinand Mirwald

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Ferdinand Mirwald (born August 22, 1872 in Passau , † October 22, 1948 in Dachau ) was a German painter from the Munich School . He was particularly fond of woodcuts .

Life

Ferdinand Mirwald, son of the Judicial Councilor Josef Mirwald, attended the Kurfürst-Maximilian-Gymnasium Burghausen and the Gymnasium Leopoldinum (Passau) . He then moved to the Munich Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. His teachers were Wilhelm von Diez , Nikolaus Gysis and Paul Hoecker . With Paul Hoecker's painting class, he spent a long time at the Chiemsee to do open-air painting . In 1909, Mirwald and his wife decided to move from Munich to Dachau. The reason for this decision was the beautiful landscape in the Dachauer Moos and the Dachau artists' colony that had existed there for a long time . Soon he became a founding member of the Dachau artists 'group, later the Dachau Artists' Association. Mirwald had been married to the private secretary Franziska Schinabeck since 1905. The son Oskar emerged from the marriage. A street in Dachau was named after the artist.

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Grave of Mirwald and his wife in Mitterndorf

Mirwald developed a skill in portrait painting , which he mainly used to finance his living. He preferred landscape paintings. He achieved an outstanding achievement in his early creative period in the field of woodblock prints:

“The great tragedy is that Mirwald's woodcut work is lost. There is no longer any of the wooden sticks, there are very few prints in private hands. It looks as if the artist himself was not aware of his great skill in this area. Because he never used the technique, which was so difficult to learn, after the outbreak of the First World War, not a single sheet was published. "

- Ottilie Thiemann-Stoedtner 1981, pp. 97-98.

Some of his pictures can be viewed in the Dachau Picture Gallery.

literature

  • Ottilie Thiemann-Stoedtner: Dachauer painter. The artist's place Dachau from 1801-1946 . Dachau 1981.
  • Norbert Göttler: Ferdinand Mirwald, painter, draftsman and wood cutter . Dachau 1988. ISBN 3-89251-048-2 .
  • Horst Heres: Dachau Picture Gallery . Dachau 1985.

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personal data
SURNAME Mirwald, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and wood cutter
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Passau
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1948
Place of death Dachau