Friedrich Wilhelm Liel

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Friedrich Wilhelm Liel (born January 24, 1878 in Römersberg , † March 26, 1960 in Burgsteinfurt ) was a German painter .

Life

Friedrich Wilhelm Liel was born in 1878 as the son of the farmer Karl Josef Liel and the major daughter Hedwig von Beeren on the manor Römersberg in Hesse. As a pupil at the grammar school in Weimar, he often visited painters' studios. In 1899 he attended the war school in Karlsruhe and took up the officer career out of his own inclination and family tradition. In 1907 he married Julie Klaus. Friedrich Liel participated in the First World War from 1914 to 1918 in military service. With the rank of lieutenant colonel , he retired from military service, lived in Berlin, where he began his work as a civil servant, as a councilor. Liel was friends with the painter Oskar Moll , who was previously in Berlin and from 1918 to 1932 professor at the Breslau Art Academy. He studied painting with Oskar Moll.

Friedrich Liel in Munster

Friedrich Liel in the studio in the Zwinger, Münster, around 1928

Friedrich Liel took in 1919 working as a Councilor in the main security office in Münster on. It was difficult to find suitable accommodation because he also wanted to pursue his passion as a "portrait painter". The old kennel in Münster, which had been vacant for years , gave him an unusual idea. As the owner, he submitted the proposal to the city to rent the Zwinger, a roundabout as an apartment and studio building. The old structure was erected around 1528 as part of the former fortifications. The magistrate complied with this request and Friedrich Liel and his wife moved into the new “artist domicile” at the end of 1919 after renovations. Inside, he decorated the Zwinger with historical paintings, his own works of art and colorful murals. The spacious attic became a studio. Liel was a founding member of the Free Artist Community Schanze in Münster in 1919 and became its first chairman. He held the office of first chancellor until 1930. Thanks to its involvement in the Münster art scene, the Zwinger experienced fifteen fruitful years. In the first few years many meetings of the hill took place there. Liel organized numerous artist festivals, concerts, banquets and lectures here. In 1925 the painter had made an artist trip to Florence and Rome. In 1933 Friedrich Liel was still organizationally involved in the rapid integration of the Schanze into the Nazi cultural scene, but he held back as a painter and was no longer present in exhibitions.

Liel left Münster in 1935 and was called up for military service in the Reichswehr . Initially in Berlin, Friedrich Liel was later head of the field post department in Dresden until the end of the war. The painter's apartment and studio in Dresden were destroyed along with most of his works in 1945. After having been evacuated from Dresden, Liel settled in Burgsteinfurt after a few stops . In 1953 Liel's wife Julie died. On the occasion of his 81st birthday, the painter was named "First Honorary Member of the Free Artist Community Schanze" in 1958. Friedrich Wilhelm Liel died on March 26, 1960 at the age of eighty-two in Burgsteinfurt.

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Friedrich Wilhelm Liel, self-portrait, 1928, Münster City Museum

Various phases can be observed in Liel's paintings from the 1920s and 1930s. He used a painting technique with self-mixed casein paint in a light application of paint (also pastose), on fine nettle cloth , laid on plywood . An influence of the painting of Oskar Moll can be observed. In Liel's studio in the Zwinger in Münster, numerous paintings, especially portraits , mostly of people from Münster, as well as still lifes, were created . Only a few of these pictures are preserved today due to the destruction of the Second World War. Liel's paintings have been in the New Objectivity style since 1929 .

Friedrich Liel was also a member of the St. Lukas Community of Münster, an association for modern Christian art. Liturgical vestments that Liel designed in the 1920s aroused great interest in exhibitions by the St. Luke Community. The painter also made murals , including for the rooms of the Corps Rheno-Guestphalen in Münster in 1926.

In the service of the Wehrmacht , Liel continued to work part-time as a painter. In the following years in Burgsteinfurt, Liel made portraits of people from Burgsteinfurt and still lifes. From 1950 he turned to abstract painting, now biblical and apocalyptic themes were represented in the work.

In an exhibition in 2001, the Münster City Museum showed two of Liel's rarely preserved paintings as new acquisitions: a self-portrait (1928) as a soldier and a still life from the Zwinger in 1922. The still life has a light blue hue in the background. This color is still in the Zwinger in Münster, in the artist's former living room, in the form of the last remnants of paint in the wall plaster. Nothing reminds us of the artist years of "Major Liel", the only peaceful phase in the long history of the mighty historical bulwark.

Exhibitions

  • 2001 “In the footsteps of the painter Friedrich Wilhelm Liel in the Zwinger, 1919 - 1935 (new acquisition)”, Münster City Museum
  • 2007 "The Zwinger in Münster, bulwark, work of art, memorial", Münster City Museum

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph Schmidt: National Socialist Cultural Policy in the Gau Westfalen-Nord, Regional Structures and Local Milieus (1933-1945) , Paderborn 2006, p. 335, ISBN 3-506-72983-7
  2. ↑ Bernd Thier: The Zwinger as an artist's apartment and painter's studio . In: Barbara Rommé (Ed.): The Zwinger. Bulwark, work of art, memorial . Aschendorff, Münster 2007, pp. 34-38, ISBN 978-3-402-12732-2
  3. ↑ Gert Meyburg: 50 years Corps Rheno-Guestphalia . Association of Old Munster Rheno-Guestphalen. Delmenhorst [1968], pp. 86-89
  4. ↑ Bernd Thier: The Zwinger as an artist's apartment and painter's studio . In: Barbara Rommé (Ed.): The Zwinger. Bulwark, work of art, memorial . Aschendorff, Münster 2007, pp. 35-38, ISBN 978-3-402-12732-2
  5. ^ City of Münster - exhibition information, 2001
  6. ^ City of Münster - exhibition information, 2007

Web links

  • Stadtmuseum Münster, Cabinet 33 of the permanent collection with works by Friedrich Liel
  • Free artist community Schanze: Directory of members
  • Exhibition "Tabu Maski, Carnival festivals of the Schanze artists' association from 1925 to 1955", Münster City Museum 2011 [1]
  • Liel's studio and residential tower: Münsteraner Bote: Defense tower opens its doors in summer . May 31, 2012, accessed November 7, 2013 [2]
  • More about Oskar Moll in the culture portal West-Ost: Biography

literature

  • Bernd Thier: The Zwinger as an artist's apartment and painter's studio . In: Barbara Rommé (Ed.): The Zwinger. Bulwark, work of art, memorial . Aschendorff, Münster 2007, pp. 34-38, ISBN 978-3-402-12732-2
  • Rita Kauder-Steiniger: The "Free Artist Community Schanze" in Münster 1919 to 1933 . In: Westfalen , 74, 1996 (1998), Münster 1998, pp. 181-200, ISSN  0043-4337
  • Friedrich Liel 80 years , In: Stadtanzeiger, Münster, January 24, 1958
  • Ten years of free artist community Schanze zu Münster i. W., 1920-1930. A commemorative publication. Friedrich Liel (ed.). Self-published by Schanze, Münster 1930
  • Wilhelm Deimann: Friedrich Liel on his 50th birthday on January 24, 1928 . In: Westfälischer Heimatbund (Ed.): Die Heimat , 10th year, January / December 1928, pp. 10-11
personal data
SURNAME Liel, Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Römersberg
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1960
Place of death Muenster