Guillermo Wiedemann
Guillermo Wiedemann (born May 8, 1905 in Munich as Wilhelm Egon Wiedemann , † January 25, 1969 in Key Biscayne , Florida ) was a German-Colombian painter .
Life
He studied in Munich at the Academy of Fine Arts with Professors Hugo von Habermann and Adolf Schinnerer.
From 1936 to 1938 he lived in Berlin . His works were classified as degenerate art by the National Socialists , so that he was the victim of reprisals. Since he was banned from painting, he began to study photography.
On the advice of his friend and photography professor Otto Moll , he fled to Colombia . He arrived in Buenaventura by ship in 1939 , from there he traveled on to Bogotá . The tropical surroundings and the inhabitants of Colombia had a very strong influence on his artistic work, and soon after his arrival the influence of the changed environment became visible in his works. The black inhabitants in particular had a special fascination for him and are also a motif in many of his pictures.
In September 1940 there was the first exhibition of his works in Colombia, and some of his watercolors were presented in the national library. For this he earned a lot of recognition, so that in the following years and decades he managed to develop into one of the most important painters in Colombia.
In the course of his life his works became more and more abstract, the representational motifs that could still be found in his earlier pictures disappeared completely in his later works.
In 1946 he became a Colombian citizen.
In the following years and decades he participated with his works in countless exhibitions in South and North America and Europe.
From 1965 he began to suffer from Parkinson's, which meant that he could no longer continue to work with the same energy as before. He died on January 25, 1969 in Key Biscayne, Florida.
See also
Web links
- Guillermo Wiedemann ( Memento from April 14, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
- http://www.lablaa.org/blaavirtual/todaslasartes/ardem/ardem02a.htm
- http://ediciones.uniandes.edu.co/index.php?Itemid=83&option=com_zoo&view=item&category_id=0&item_id=2215
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wiedemann, Guillermo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wiedemann, Wilhelm Egon (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Colombian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 8, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 25, 1969 |
| Place of death | Key Biscayne , Florida |