Gustav Wimmer
Gustav Wimmer (born April 10, 1877 in Stettin , † March 22, 1964 in Kiel ) was a German painter . He is referred to as "The Stettiner Painter" or "The Pomeranian Painter" and is considered a painter of the quiet, melancholy landscape, so that there are certain echoes of Caspar David Friedrich .
Life
Gustav Wimmer was the son of a bookbinder from Szczecin. After finishing school in 1891, he first worked in an insurance office. Soon afterwards he took drawing lessons from the painter and graphic artist Reinhold Hoberg, who was living in Stettin at the time . From 1897 he studied at the Berlin Art Academy, where he devoted himself in particular to the painting technique of the Old Masters. During his student days he went on an educational trip to Italy with stops in Rome and Florence . Later he also attended the Munich Art Academy. In 1913 he exhibited for the first time in his hometown of Szczecin on the occasion of the opening of the Szczecin City Museum .
After the end of the Second World War he lived in Schleswig-Holstein . The Pomeranian Landsmannschaft awarded him the cultural award for his life's work in 1962.
Works (selection)
- Or landscape with anglers
- Moonlight
- Weiden near Kolow
- Landscape with poplars and willows
- Ships in the port of Szczecin in 1899
- Sailing ships under an approaching thunderstorm. Memory of the Szczecin Harbor 1899
literature
- Unser Pommerland Heft 3, 1927. With an essay by Paul Jeske about G.Wimmer and 7 reproductions (b / w) of his pictures.
- Hans Kasdorff: Gustav Wimmer. Life and work of a painter from Pomerania. Christoph von der Ropp, Hamburg 1961
- Eckhard Wendt: Stettiner Lebensbilder (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania . Series V, Volume 40). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-412-09404-8 , pp. 490–492 (with picture).
Web links
- Literature by and about Gustav Wimmer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Gustav Wimmer , Book Description von Maria Łopuch
Individual evidence
- ↑ Waldemar Diedrich: Ask me about Pomerania. Rautenberg, Leer 1987, ISBN 3-7921-0352-4 , p. 241
- ↑ Hannelore Deya: April calendar. In: Heimatkurier. Supplement to the Nordkurier , April 11, 2005, p. 23
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wimmer, Gustav |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 10, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Szczecin |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 22, 1964 |
| Place of death | Kiel |