Hans Wildermann

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Hans Wilhelm Wildermann (born February 21, 1884 in Kalk , † November 1, 1954 in Cologne ) was a German set designer , painter and sculptor .

Life

"Girl with a deer", 1911
Shipping fountain in Cologne-Mülheim , 1913

Hans Wildermann was born as the son of the authorized signatory Heinrich W. Wildermann and his wife Maria Wildermann, née Röhr. He first attended schools in Recklinghausen and Cologne and then studied in Düsseldorf , Berlin and Munich . In Düsseldorf, where he studied from 1900 to 1903, Peter Janssen the Elder and Willy Spatz were his teachers.

From 1907 Wildermann lived again in his hometown, where he worked under Max Martersteig and his conductor Otto Lohse on the furnishing of the Cologne theaters and as a sculptor. Martersteig had seen Wildermann's etching Gate of Imagination . The contact then came about through Lohse's wife, in whose salon the theater world from Germany and other countries met. Wildermann then took part in the opera festival in 1911 and the following year he took part in the Cologne Sonderbund exhibition, where he created the figure group “Young man with pony” and “girl with deer” for the forecourt of the exhibition hall at Aachener Tor Second World War in the green areas of the Deutsches Ring . In 1912 the Mülheimer Schifffahrtsbrunnen was built .

In 1912 Johannes Maurach brought him to the Stadttheater Essen as a guest set designer . A year later, in 1913, he went to Munich, where he met Paul Klee . Then there was collaborations with the Berlin Opera House, the National Theater in Munich and the Leipzig Opera House . In August 1919, Wildermann again followed Maurach, who was now the artistic director of the Dortmund City Theaters . In 1920 he married Erna Maria Concordia Hoheisel in Berlin . When Maurach went to Nuremberg in 1922/1923, Wildermann initially followed him. However, the new Dortmund director Karl Schäffer managed to bring Wildermann back to Dortmund. In 1926 Hans Wildermann moved to Breslau, where he received a professorship for theater painting at the State Academy for Arts and Crafts . From 1936 he was head of the equipment department at the Breslau Opera House. The National Socialists confiscated his triptych " Transfiguration " in 1937 and declared it to be degenerate art .

After the Second World War , Wildermann returned to his hometown Cologne, where he last lived in Riehl not far from the zoological garden . On November 1, 1954, he died in the university clinic in the Lindenthal district . A daughter, Angelika, emerged from his marriage.

Wildermann and National Socialism

As early as the 1920s, Wildermann had a deep friendship with the nationalist and, since 1933, national socialist Regensburg music book publisher Gustav Bosse . He had him extensively illustrated the Almanac of the German Music Library (1920–1927) and dedicated his own publishing line, Hans Wildermann Works , in which almost the entire graphic work had already appeared in 1923. Wildermann cut the Anton Bruckner Medal of the International Bruckner Society in 1936 on the occasion of the unveiling of Anton Bruckner's bust in the Walhalla on June 6, 1937; an assignment that once again came from Bosse. In 1942 he illustrated the book Italian Poetry from Dante to Mussolini - An Anthology (Gauverlag-NS-Schlesien), was honored in the same year with the book by Siegmund Skraup The Opera as a Living Theater by depicting 35 stage sets. His illustrations for “Die Schildbürger” appeared in the 1942 military post for the 63,000th time. On his 60th birthday in 1944, the magazine Musik im Kriege - Organ of the Music Office published the homage of Carl Niessen Hans Wildermann as a set designer for the Führer’s agent for the supervision of the entire intellectual and ideological training and education of the NSDAP (volume 1, p. 7-9).

Services

Wildermann began his career during the economically difficult period of the Weimar Republic. But he used the financial bottlenecks as an opportunity and implemented new developments in painting in set design. Instead of elaborate, decorative backdrops, he used simple shapes and achieved desired effects with colors and lighting.

In addition to his work as a set designer, Wildermann always worked as a sculptor, painter and graphic artist. The Dortmund Art and Trade Museum dedicated a space to him in its permanent exhibition.

The "series of works" of Hans Wildermann's works, published in 1933 by Ernst Scheyer , curator and deputy director of the Silesian Museum of Applied Arts and Altertürmer in Breslau, comprises 589 titles. Including 72 paintings and 60 sculptures.

Works (selection)

painting

  • Homer , 1911, mural in the Deutsches Theater, Cologne, Bismarckstr. 7 (destroyed by war)
  • Faust am Meer , 1911, mural in the Deutsches Theater, Cologne, Bismarckstr. 7 (destroyed by war)
  • Greek Spring , 1913, wall painting in Villa Kruska, Cologne-Lindenthal, Pfarriusstr. 4 (architect Joseph Maria Olbrich , 1907/08)
  • Transfiguration, Elias, John the Baptist , 1924, triptych, oil on panel

Sculptures

  • Dr. Max Martersteig , 1908, bronze (1933: owner of the Cologne Theater Museum)
  • Girl with deer , 1911, bronze sculpture, Cologne-Riehl ( Flora )
  • Youth with pony (also: youth with horse ) 1911, bronze sculpture, Cologne-Müngersdorf, stadium swimming pool
  • Schifffahrtsbrunnen , 1912, bronze, created for the Düsseldorf city exhibition, installed in Cologne-Mülheim in 1913
  • Industry and trade fountain , 1912, bronze, created for the Düsseldorf city exhibition, set up in Cologne-Mülheim in 1913
  • Boy with Rabbit , 1913, bronze on a stone base, Cologne-Kalk (Stadtgarten)
  • Christian Morgenstern , 1918, bronze sculpture (1933 in the Städtisches Museum, Darmstadt)
  • John the Baptist , 1924, wooden statue
  • Otto Lohse urn (with 3 figures) , 1925, small bronze temple in honor of Otto Lohse
  • Reclining Madonna , 1928, wood sculpture

Cycles

  • Faust Realities , 1909 to 1919, collection with 49 prints, created on the occasion of the Faust productions by Max Martersteig

Single sheets

  • Four elements , 1922, graphic

literature

  • Irmhild La Nier-Kuhnt: philosophy and stage design. Life and work of the scenographer Hans Wildermann . In: The Schaubühne . tape 69 . Lechte, 1970, OCLC 85207619 , ZDB -ID 500062-2 .
  • Wildermann, Hans . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 35 : Libra-Wilhelmson . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1942, p. 565-566 .
  • Ernst Scheyer: Hans Wildermann. Work sequence . Gustav Bosse Verlag, Regensburg 1933, DNB  578361833 (published on the occasion of the exhibition of the complete works of Hans Wildermann in the Silesian Museum for Applied Arts and Antiquities in Breslau in January / February 1933).
  • Robert Steimel: Cologne heads. Steimel-Verlag, Cologne 1958.
  • Henriette Meynen: Cologne: Kalk and Humboldt-Gremberg. (= Stadtspuren - Monuments in Cologne, Volume 7). Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1990, ISBN 3-7616-1020-3 .

Web links

Commons : Hans Wildermann  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d North Rhine-Westphalia State Archives, Rhineland civil status archive, civil status register, Cologne I registry office, deaths, 1954, document no. 3498.
  2. ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, kunstpalast.de PDF).
  3. ↑ a b c d Hans Wildermann and Max Martersteig. In: Kölnische Rundschau. No. 186a, August 14, 1955.
  4. ^ Museum Ludwig (ed.): Sculpture in Cologne . 20th century images in the cityscape. Cologne 1988, p. 197-198 .
  5. ^ Hiltrud Kier : The Cologne Neustadt: planning, development, use. Figures 466, 467 and 468.
  6. ^ Birgit Schilling, Karl Heinz Thurz: Fountain in Cologne . JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1988, ISBN 3-7616-0936-1 , p. 51 .
  7. ↑ a b Ulrike Gärtner: Wildermann, Hans . In: Hans Bohrmann (Ed.): Biographies of important Dortmunders. People in, from and for Dortmund . tape 3 . Klartext, Essen 2001, ISBN 3-88474-954-4 , p. 211 ff .
  8. ↑ see: Zeitschrift für Musik. 103rd year, issue 5, May 1936, after p. 544.
  9. ↑ a b c Steimel, Col. 437.
  10. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Ernst Scheyer: Hans Wildermann. Work sequence. Gustav Bosse Verlag, Regensburg 1933.
  11. ^ Henriette Meynen: Cologne: Kalk and Humboldt-Gremberg. (= Stadtspuren - Monuments in Cologne. Volume 7). Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1990, ISBN 3-7616-1020-3 , p. 374.
personal data
SURNAME Wildermann, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wildermann, Hans Wilhelm (= full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German set designer, painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH lime
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 1954
Place of death Cologne