Gunter Wechterstein

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Gunter Wechterstein (born October 31st July / November 13th  1910 greg. In Reval ; † October 8th 2013 in Minden ) was a Baltic German landscape and portrait painter .

Life

Wechterstein attended the knight and cathedral school in Reval until he graduated from high school in 1929. From 1926 to 1931 he received art lessons from the Estonian portrait and landscape painter Ants Laikmaa in Reval. It was Wechterstein's career aspiration to become a painter. During the global economic crisis, however, the family's means were insufficient for studying art. In 1930 he was drafted into the Estonian army. In 1935 he married Edda Schneider, with whom he had three children (born in 1940, 1942 and 1944). In 1939 he was forcibly relocated to the German Reich. From 1942 to 1945 he was in military service, from 1945 to 1948 as a prisoner of war in Russia. From 1949 to 1974 he worked at a bank in Minden.

Participation in exhibitions

  • 1935 Kunstihoone (Kunsthaus) Reval (Tallinn) with the artists' association "Uus Kunstnike Koondis"
  • 1937 Kunstihoone Reval
  • 1938 Reval Provincial Museum "German Baltic Artists"
  • 1941 Poznań
  • 1983 Hamburg
  • 1985 Castle on Fehmarn
  • 1991 Tallinn - on the 125th birthday of the artist Ants Laikmaa

Solo exhibitions

  • 1965 boarding school Petershagen / Weser
  • 1980 Dresdner Bank, Minden
  • 1981 Carl-Schirren-Gesellschaft Lüneburg
  • 1984 Mindener Kunstverein 32nd jour fix
  • 1985 Dresdner Bank, Minden
  • 1986 Ev. Educational facility Haus Reineberg in Hüllhorst near Lübbecke
  • 1988 Bückeburg Latin School
  • 1990 Dresdner Bank, Minden

Publications

  • Ragni Wechterstein: The landscape painter Gunter Wechterstein. Monograph by Kunstfreunde Minden-Bückeburg eV, Minden [1989?]
  • Arved von Taube: Reval, Tallinn: Hanseatic city, state capital, Olympic city. Rau-Verlag, Düsseldorf, 1979, ISBN 3-7919-0187-7 (illustrations)
  • Frank von Auer: The neighbor Germany in the European house. Talheimer Verlag, Mössingen-Talheim 1992, ISBN 3-89376-016-4 (speaker portraits)
  • Art postcards, Marowsky art and bookstore, Minden
personal data
SURNAME Wechterstein, Gunter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Baltic landscape and portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Reval
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 2013
Place of death Minden