Georg Wolters
Georg Wolters (born February 22, 1861 in Braunschweig ; † April 10, 1933 there ) was a German animal and hunting painter and illustrator .
Life
Georg Wolters was the son of a Brunswick chief fireworker . He was born in Krähenfeld , south of what is now Braunschweig's inner city , and was immortalized in literature by Wilhelm Raabe 's 1879 Krähenfeld stories . Through his parents' house he made the acquaintance of Raabe, who also lives in the Krähenfeld , at an early age .
After completing a forestry apprenticeship in Mariental , not far from Braunschweig, from 1881 to 1887 , Wolters enrolled on April 17, 1880 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich to study painting in the class of antiquities. Alois Gabl and Wilhelm von Diez were his teachers in Munich . In the years from 1887 to 1891 he also took private lessons in Düsseldorf from the leading German hunting painters of his time, Carl Friedrich Deiker and Christian Kröner . Wolters settled back in his hometown in 1896. In addition to hunting motifs, he created dog portraits. As a draftsman and illustrator, he provided templates for various hunting magazines.
In the 1920s and 1930s Wolters lived again in the house he was born in on Spohrstrasse , which was named after the musician and composer Louis Spohr, who was also born in Braunschweig . In honor of Wolters, it was later renamed Georg-Wolters-Strasse . A memorial plaque for him was unveiled on June 14, 1936 on his former home.
literature
- Jürgen Hodemacher : Braunschweig's streets - their names and their stories. Volume 2: Okergraben and city ring. Elm-Verlag, Cremlingen 1996, ISBN 3-927060-12-7 , pp. 98-99.
- Norman-Mathias Pingel: Wolters, Georg. In: Luitgard Camerer , Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 , p. 251 .
- Wilhelm Isensee: The hunting painter Georg Wolters on his 70th birthday . In: Braunschweigische Heimat . 21st year (1930), issue 2, p. 56.
- Benno Ludwig Manns: Georg Wolters . In: Westermannsmonthshefte . Year 1923, volume 135, p. 239 ff.
Web links
- Georg Wolters , auction results on the portal artnet .de
Individual evidence
- ↑ 03798 Georg Wolters , register of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich
- ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
- ↑ Jürgen Hodemacher: Braunschweigs streets - their names and their stories. Volume 2: Okergraben and city ring. P. 98.
- ^ City chronicle Braunschweig , entry in the portal braunschweig.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wolters, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German animal and hunting painter and illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 22, 1861 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Braunschweig |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 10, 1933 |
| Place of death | Braunschweig |