Georg Wolf (painter)

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Georg Wolf (born March 15, 1882 in Niederhausbergen , Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine ; † December 27, 1962 in Uelzen , Lower Saxony ) was a German animal and landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Wolf, who already showed interest in animal painting as a boy, attended the arts and crafts school in Strasbourg from 1899 to 1901 . During the subsequent military service, which he performed from 1901 to 1903 in the Royal Bavarian 2nd Infantry Regiment "Crown Prince" in Munich , he had first contact with Heinrich von Zügel's animal painting . From 1903 to 1904 he went on a trip to Italy with the painter Fritz Müller-Schwaben (1879–1957). In 1906 he enrolled at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There he attended the class of the animal painter Julius Paul Junghanns , whose master class he became. He took his final exam in 1908 and left the academy in 1912. From 1909 to 1914 he attended Heinrich von Zügels' animal painting school, which had existed as the "Zügel-Schule" since 1895 in Wörth am Rhein and which gave prospective animal painters the opportunity to deepen their knowledge in the summer months. He participated in the First World War as a soldier. Pictures of landscapes and everyday life of German soldiers at the front come from this time.

In 1913, Wolf took part in the Great Art Exhibition in Düsseldorf , and in 1914, 1920, 1922, 1937, 1938, 1939 and 1941 he exhibited in the Munich Glass Palace . In 1937 he was represented at the Great German Art Exhibition in the Munich House of Art . In 1934 he became a member of the Reich Chamber of Culture . Wolf lived in Düsseldorf , where he was friends with the animal painter Carl Weisgerber . After his wife's death, at the end of 1944, he moved to Uelzen in the Lüneburg Heath , a landscape that he had got to know in the 1930s. There he married again in 1960. His widow bequeathed her husband's artistic estate to the city of Uelzen. Works by the painter are exhibited in the museum at Schloss Holdenstedt .

literature

  • Wolf, Georg . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947, p. 198 .
  • Wolf, 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. 161 .
  • Heinrich Wolter: Georg Wolf 1882–1962. Düsseldorf – Uelzen. Master student of the Düsseldorf Academy. Verden / Aller 1962
  • Heinrich Wolter: Georg Wolf 1882–1962. Memory catalog for the 100th birthday. Verden / Aller 1982
  • Heinrich Wolter: Georg Wolf 1882–1962. 1. Follow-up catalog. Creative period 1900–1914. Verden / Aller, undated
  • Heinrich Wolter: Georg Wolf 1882–1962. 2. Follow-up catalog. Creative period in the war years 1914–1918. Verden / Aller, undated

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf. In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 443
personal data
SURNAME Wolf, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German animal and landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Niederhausbergen , Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1962
Place of death Uelzen , Lower Saxony