Franz Xaver Wimmer

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Franz Xaver Wimmer (born May 30, 1881 in Krefeld , Rhine Province ; † March 17, 1937 in Königsberg , East Prussia ) was a German etcher and lithographer as well as landscape and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School . From 1905 to 1922 he taught at the state drawing teacher seminar at the Düsseldorf School of Applied Arts . From 1922 to 1932 he was a professor at the Königsberg Art Academy .

Life

Wimmer began his artistic training between 1895 and 1900 as an apprentice in the lithographic studio in his home town of Krefeld. From 1900 to 1902 he worked as a lithographer in the Krefeld art print shop Wilhelm Wefers. From 1902 to 1908 he was a student at the Düsseldorf School of Applied Arts. There was one Heinrich Reifferscheid his teachers. After he had passed the "drawing teacher examination for higher schools" in 1905, he became a teacher at the state drawing teacher seminar at the Düsseldorf School of Applied Arts. He also gave drawing lessons at the Art History Institute of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . In 1922 he was appointed to the Königsberg Art Academy, where he taught until 1932. When emergency ordinances restricted teaching at the Königsberg Academy in 1932, he was forced to work as a teacher and drawing teacher at the Königsberg Castle School.

Wimmer's oeuvre was initially dominated by graphically demanding etchings and lithographs , later painting dominated. He preferred watercolors for depicting his landscapes and oil painting for portraits . Wimmer was a member of the German Association of Artists , the Reich Association of German Artists and the German Werkbund , at whose exhibitions he was represented. In 1937 he was honored with a memorial exhibition in Königsberg. Ruth Faltin and Günther Voellner were among Wimmer's Königsberg students .

literature

Individual evidence

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