Georg Wickert
Georg Josef Wickert (born October 19, 1886 in Gleiwitz , † February 12, 1940 in Lübeck ) was a German landscape painter.
Life
Georg Wickert was the son of a master tailor from Gleiwitz in Upper Silesia . After study trips through South America and Italy , he worked in Lübeck. He found his motifs mainly on the water, for example on the Wakenitz , the Trave or the Baltic Sea . in August 1929 Westermann's monthly magazine showed his yachts in the morning light , and in 1930 a critic found that his pictures spoke "the whole magic of water and land, trees and wide-span skies".
Since 1916 he was married to Agnes Lucie Karoline, b. Brey (1889-). Wickert last lived at Friedrich-Wilhelm-Strasse (now Stresemannstrasse) 21 in Lübeck-St. Jurgen . He was buried in the Burgtorfriedhof .
literature
- Wickert, Georg . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 35 : Libra-Wilhelmson . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1942, p. 513 .
- Wickert, Georg . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 126 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Wakenitz pictures by Wickert. in: Vaterstädtische Blätter 1930/31, p. 5 ( digitized version )
- ↑ 1940 Funeral Register, accessed on ancestry.com on July 8, 2020
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wickert, Georg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wickert, Georg Josef (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 19, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gliwice |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 12, 1940 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |