Friedrich Schiemann

Friedrich Schiemann (* 1918 in Hüls / Recklinghausen district ; † May 18, 1991 in Düsseldorf ) was a German painter .

family

Friedrich Schiemann is a grandson of the sculptor Aloys Janik, who died in 1936 . He was with the daughter of the doctor Dr. Cürten married. Their son Philipp Schiemann was born in 1969. He is a writer, musician and film actor and also lives in Düsseldorf.

Life

The painter Schiemann grew up in Dortmund in a miner's family. After high school and teacher training, war and imprisonment, he attended the art academy in Düsseldorf from 1946 to 1950 , he was a student of Hauser and later the first master student of the post-war academy with Otto Pankok . From 1950 he worked as a freelance artist.

In 1953 he received one of four Cornelius prizes from the jury of the Kunstverein Rheinland und Westfalen. 141 participants (painters and sculptors) from the then Federal Republic took part in the competition with around 500 works. Schiemann was one of the youngest winners of the Cornelius Prize. Another prize winner from the field of painting was Hermann Teuber from the Berlin-Charlottenburg School of Art in 1953 .

In 1975 Schiemann was a visiting professor at the Bochum University . After 1975 frequent study and work trips to Corsica, France, Spain and repeatedly to Greece. In the early 1980s he showed his Greek paintings in a series of solo exhibitions.

style

Friedrich Schiemann belongs to the classical modern age. The abstract painting of Ernst Wilhelm Nays was an important influence . But Schiemann came back to a realistic way of painting. In addition to gouaches and oil paintings , mainly watercolors were created . He also created portraits . A characteristic of his painting are the broader brushstrokes. After 1975 he became more abstract again and his pictures became more colorful. A late work was created from 1989 to 1991.

Schiemann's work is represented in museums and collections in Düsseldorf, Krefeld, Wuppertal, Neuss, Bad Godesberg and Duisburg. Schiemann was always distant from the commercial gallery business, but there were also exhibitions of his works, mostly in and around Düsseldorf, but also in Munich, Freiburg, Brussels and Paris. He is in several private collections. a. represented in Cairo, Beirut, Rome, Paris, London, Washington and Chicago.

literature

Holger Roderich Jakob: Abstract painting. Friedrich Schiemann. 1918 - 1991 , H & M frame studio, Düsseldorf, 1991
Hans Vollmer, Ulrich Thieme: General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century , Seemann, Leipzig, 1962, vol. 4, p. 184

Source (s), web links

Individual evidence

↑ City Chronicle of the City of Düsseldorf 1953

personal data
SURNAME	Schiemann, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter
DATE OF BIRTH	1918
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sleeve
DATE OF DEATH	May 18, 1991
Place of death	Dusseldorf

[1] City Chronicle of the City of Düsseldorf 1953