Franz Wolter

Franz Wolter (born November 25, 1865 in Cologne , † December 11, 1932 in Munich ) was a German painter and art writer .

Life

Wolter attended the art academies of Ghent , Brussels and Düsseldorf . In Düsseldorf, where he studied from 1892 to 1895, he was a student of Adolf Schill and Eduard von Gebhardt . For four years he then worked as a church painter for Friedrich Stummel in Kevelaer . After a period of wandering in the Rhine and Main areas, he settled in Munich. He had been supplying the glass palace there since 1898.

In Munich he served from 1906 to 1932 as the first chairman of the Association for Christian Art . He also acted as President of the Munich Antiquities Association . He was also a member of the Munich Artists' Cooperative and the Reich Association of German Artists . Together with Karl Raupp he published the artist chronicle of Frauenchiemsee . In particular in the field of medieval sculpture , which he collected, he appeared as an art historian .

In 1935 the city of Munich honored him by naming Franz-Wolter-Strasse in the Oberföhring district .

Franz v. Lenbach's painting technique . In: Münchner kunsttechnische Blätter . Supplement to: Die Werkstatt der Kunst , No. 3 (1904), pp. 11–12.
Jakob Kaschauer, the master of the high altar erected in 1443 in Freising Cathedral . In: Yearbook of the Association for Christian Art , 1 (1912), p. 17.
The Maria with the child alternating the artistic conception in Bavarian sculpture of the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries . Munich 1918.
as editor with Karl Raupp : Die Künstlerchronik von Frauenchiemsee . Munich 1918 (2nd edition: Munich 1924).
with Willi Burger: The medieval wooden sculpture in Germany . Munich 1924.
as editor: Sketchbook old Munich artists . Munich 1924.
with Georg Jakob Wolf : Munich artist festivals. Munich artist chronicles . Munich 1924.
Franz von Pocci as the Simplicissimus of Romanticism . Munich 1925.
What did Christ look like? Munich 1930 (with translations in English and French).

Wolter, Franz . 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. 234 .
Wolter, Franz . In: Karl Bosl (Ed.): Bosls Bayerische Biographie. 8000 personalities from 15 centuries . Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 832 ( digitized version ).

^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )

personal data
SURNAME	Wolter, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter and art writer
DATE OF BIRTH	November 25, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cologne
DATE OF DEATH	December 11, 1932
Place of death	Munich