Heinrich Wilhelmi (painter)
Heinrich Wilhelmi (* 1823 in Xanten ; † June 10, 1902 in Düsseldorf ) was a German genre and animal painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Wilhelmi came to the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1840 . There he was primarily a student of Karl Ferdinand Sohn , both in the elementary and antiquity classes and in the second painting class in 1843/1844. In 1846 he graduated from Rudolf Wiegmann's construction class . In the 1840s he went on a study trip to Italy, where he stayed especially in Rome and also tried his hand at landscape painting. After returning to Düsseldorf, he stayed there all his life and gained a reputation as a genre painter. In 1858 Wilhelmi's son Paul was born in Düsseldorf , who was also to attend the art academy there from 1880 to 1886 and later emigrated to the United States and Australia. Heinrich Wilhelmi was a member of the Malkasten artists' association from 1859 to 1889.
Work (selection)
Wilhelmi painted narrative and entertaining genre scenes in the tradition of the Düsseldorf School. He preferred medium-sized formats for his fine painting of figures - often children and animals. He sold many works in the United States.
- Near Sorrento , around 1850
- The end of work
- The sermon for smoking too early
- Genre picture in the forest
- The bird lesson
- The knitter , 1860s
- Girl playing with a cat , 1881
literature
- Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon . Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 558 ( digitized version )
Web links
- Heinrich Wilhelmi , biography on the tiermalerei.catplus.de portal
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelmi, Paul , website (PDF) in the portal germanamericanpioneers.org , accessed on June 18, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wilhelmi, Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German genre and animal painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1823 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Xanten |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 10, 1902 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |