Georg Wimmelmann

Georg Wimmelmann (born September 21, 1906 in Bad Honnef ; † April 11, 1983 in Hanover ) was a German architect , painter and numismatist .

Life

Wimmelmann lived in Hanover from 1914 and took courses at the Hanover School of Applied Arts during and after his school days , learned to paint from Ernst Erich Heidemann and plastic art from Ludwig Vierthaler . He studied architecture and started his own business in Hanover in 1933. In 1942 Wimmelmann was drafted for military service in World War II and was taken prisoner of war , from which he was released in 1946. He then worked again as an architect and helped to shape the cityscape of Hanover with his buildings in the post-war period, which often included the work of visual artists. In 1973 Wimmelmann gave up his office and from then on concentrated on painting, especially landscape watercolors, which he presented in a gallery set up in 1969.

In 1979 Wimmelmann had an apartment and studio , at the same time a permanent exhibition in his own gallery, at Hausmannstrasse 1 in the Hanover district of Mitte .

Georg Wimmelmann died in 1983 after a brief, serious illness. He left his wife Susanne Wimmelmann geb. Ehrmann and a daughter. The Schweizer Münzblätter praised Wimmelmann as a "committed supporter of a modern and future-oriented art of medals and plaques". In 2002, his widow donated the joint collection of art medals to the Münzkabinett Berlin , which has since been part of the museum's holdings.

Activities as a numismatist

Medal of the Dr. Irmgard Woldering Promotion Prize, suggested by Wimmelmann and created by Hilde Broër , depicting the mountain nymph Daphne

Wimmelmann helped shape non-academic numismatics in the Federal Republic. In 1967, together with Otto Marzinek and Peter Berghaus , he initiated the “Society of German Medal Friends”, of which Wimmelmann became President in 1968 together with Vice-President Marzinek. In 1971 the two of them broke up; Wimmelmann resigned under protest from what he considered to be a society that was too conservative and founded the “Support Group for Modern Medal Art”, in which he campaigned to make the art medal attractive to contemporary artists and the public and to spread it. In the 1960s and 1970s, for example, he contacted visual artists and encouraged them to create medals. This is evidenced by an extensive correspondence with, among others, the artists Hans Karl Burgeff and Hilde Broër trained by Ludwig Gies , which is kept in the Münzkabinett Berlin . The contacts also included Bernd Altenstein , Karl Berthold , Hubert Klinkel , Heide Dobberkau and Eberhard Linke .

Wimmelmann's numismatic ideas are made clear in a letter he wrote to Hilde Broër in March 1970:

“I don't think very much of the 'old' medal collectors, because I really know some of them… Perhaps you have to change the name [of the company] and write very thickly in front of it: we only collect and promote modern medals. We look forward and not back. "

In April 1971, Hilde Broer expressed her appreciation for it as follows:

“It takes a lot of idealism to stand up for the modern medal badge, especially here in Germany it is not at all known that you can more or less have small artistic 'reliefs', so to speak. We only know the heads and hideous occasional medals under medals ... Perhaps you will succeed in reasserting the medal ”.

From 1963 until his death, Wimmelmann was President of the Numismatic Society in Hanover . In 1969 he praised the “Dr. Irmgard Woldering Promotion Prize” in honor of the late museum director Irmgard Woldering , who promotes scientific work by amateur numismatists and especially young people and thus supports the goal of arousing numismatic interest in the general public should. From 1966 Wimmelmann was also a member of the Swiss Numismatic Society . He repeatedly published on medals from different countries in numismatic magazines.

Works (selection)

building

• 1950s: Apartment buildings on the cloister corridor in Hanover

literature

• Hans Voegtli: Georg Wimmelmann. Obituary. In: Schweizer Münzblätter 33 (1983), issue 131, p. 73, PDF. Online in e-periodicals. Swiss Electronic Academic Library Service .ch .
• Dieter Radow: Obituary for Georg Wimmelmann. In: Money Trend 15 (1983), No. 6, p. 9 (not evaluated).
• Georg Wimmelmann †. In: Geldgeschichtliche Nachrichten 97 (1983), p. 260 (not evaluated).
• Karl Schulz: Georg Wimmelmann. Obituary. In: Communications of the Austrian Numismatic Society 23 (1983), p. 34 (not evaluated).
• Wolfgang Steguweit with contributions by Eberhard Linke and Hans Liepmann: Contemporary Art Medals in Germany. Georg Wimmelmann Collection (= The Cabinet, Vol. 7). Münzkabinett, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-88609-403-0 (70 pages, catalog with 130 medals, artist biographies and correspondence).
• Wolfgang Steguweit: Contemporary art medals in Germany. The Georg Wimmelmann Collection (1906–1983). In: Museum journal. Reports from museums, castles and collections in Berlin and Potsdam , ISSN  0933-0593 , vol. 17 (2003), issue 1, p. 38 f.

Web links

• Wolfgang Steguweit: Contemporary art medals in Germany. Georg Wimmelmann Collection. Catalog. Online text output. In: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (website, PDF).
• Eberhard Linke, Hans Liepmann: Georg Wimmelmann - memories of a friend. Online text output. In: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (website, PDF).
• Albert M. Beck : The History of the World Money Fair. 40 years - from the beginning to the present. Extract as PDF. Gietl, Regenstauf 2011, ISBN 978-3-86646-536-7 , p. 17 (photo Wimmelmanns from 1974).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Norm data of the GND .
2. ↑ Unless otherwise stated, all information on the curriculum vitae is taken from: Eberhard Linke, Hans Liepmann: Georg Wimmelmann - memories of a friend. ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Online text output. In: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (website, PDF). 
3. ^ Directory of visual artists in Hanover , 1st edition 1. – 5. Thousand, ed. from the cultural office of the state capital Hanover, Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsanstalt und Druckerei, 1979, ISBN 978-3-87706-020-9 and ISBN 3-87706-020-X , p. 231
4. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Hausmannstrasse , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 108
5. ↑ Donation to promote the art of medals. In: German Society for Medal Art (website), 25 August 2011.
6. ^ ^{A b} Hans Voegtli: Georg Wimmelmann. Obituary. In: Schweizer Münzblätter 33 (1983), issue 131, p. 73.
7. ↑ Das Kabinett 7 (2002). Book display. In: German Society for Medal Art (website); Helmut Caspar: Generous donations. In: Numismatisches Nachrichtenblatt 52 (2003), Issue 11, p. 480 f.
8. ↑ Wolfgang Steguweit: Art medals of the present in Germany. Georg Wimmelmann Collection. ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Online text output. In: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (website, PDF), p. 4 f., 19. 
9. ↑ Concerning his role, Ingrid S. Weber: Findings on the medal creation of the Swabian sculptor Fritz Nuss (1907-1999). In: Yearbook for Numismatics and Money History 60 (2010), pp. 207–242, here pp. 231–233.
10. ↑ See his letter of July 24, 1970, in: Wolfgang Steguweit: Art medals of the present in Germany. Georg Wimmelmann Collection. ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Online text output. In: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (website, PDF), p. 20. 
11. ↑ Excerpts can be found at Wolfgang Steguweit: Art Medals of the Present in Germany. Georg Wimmelmann Collection. ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Online text output. In: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (website, PDF), Appendix, pp. 17–25. 
12. ↑ Eberhard Linke, Hans Liepmann: Georg Wimmelmann - memories of a friend. ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Online text output. In: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (website, PDF), p. 7. 
13. ↑ Wolfgang Steguweit: Art medals of the present in Germany. Georg Wimmelmann Collection. ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Online text output. In: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (website, PDF), p. 19. 
14. ↑ Directory of Members. Completed on November 1, 1970. In: Swiss Numismatic Rundschau 49 (1970), pp. 109–128, here p. 122.
15. ↑ See the table of contents of the Geldgeschichtliche Nachrichten and exemplarily Lothar Schumacher: 1000 sources. Literature on mining coins. ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. PDF. Self-published, 2nd edition 2012, p. W-4. 
16. ↑ Georg Barke , Wilhelm Hatopp ( edit .): New building in Hanover: builders, architects, building trade, construction industry report on planning and execution of the construction years 1948 to 1954 (= monographs of the building industry , volume 23), vol. 1, ed. From the press office of the capital Hanover in cooperation with the municipal building management, Stuttgart: Aweg Verlag Max Kurz, 1955, p. 31