Heinz Wever

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Heinz Wever (born December 31, 1890 in Herscheid ; † August 15, 1966 in Bad Breisig ) was a German painter and author of Low German texts and books.

Life

Wever was born in 1890 as the son of a retailer from a long-established Herscheid family. After the village school in Herscheid he attended grammar school in Altena . His interest in the Low German language and painting developed early on. The father was already interested in art, but at the insistence of his parents had to refrain from becoming a painter. Heinz Wever received support from his mother and the portrait painter Walter Petersen in his artistic development . Between 1911 and 1913 he attended the art academy in Düsseldorf .

After that, he had to do his military service, which led directly to military service. During the First World War he was a soldier on the Western Front . After the war he resumed his studies in Düsseldorf.

Numerous trips have taken him to Lake Constance , Switzerland , Italy (especially Rome ) and North Africa . He documented these trips in watercolors and chalk drawings. At an early age he painted pictures with motifs from working life in the Sauerland in the Brandenburg region . In 1924 a picture was created “Workers come from the shift”, which shows a scene from Altena. In 1926 he was one of the permanent painters in the preparation of the large health and social exhibition in Düsseldorf ( GeSoLei ). In addition, a series of portraits of leading personalities of the city were created on public order, which were exhibited in the Ratskeller.

Shortly afterwards, Wever traveled to America with Felix Graf von Luckner . Numerous drawings and sketches were made during the passage on a sailing ship. He separated from Luckner and stayed in the USA. He organized the festival for the 150th anniversary of the arrival of General Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben in America. He then accompanied the art historian and author Josef Ponten on a tour of the United States. This resulted in illustrated travel diaries and letters to parents. These reports only appeared in 1994.

Wever lived in Berlin since 1930 . Among other things, he worked for the International Hygiene Exhibition in Dresden . He also took on graphic commissioned work, for example for illustrations or posters. In the early 1930s he mainly worked for right-wing organizations such as the Stahlhelm . For this he designed a poster for Theodor Duesterberg's candidacy for the presidential election in 1932 . In the same year he also designed a poster for the DNVP with the picture of Frederick II. He also worked as a designer of propaganda pictures during the Third Reich . He wrote a poster with the picture of Hermann Göring to advertise the air raid in 1935. He also painted beach and sailing pictures and portraits in the Berlin zoo .

Heinz Wever returned to Herscheid in 1936 and set up a studio in his parents' house. He painted, among others, Fritz Thomée and Theodor Heuss . A commission to portray company anniversaries at their workplace was followed by numerous similar commissions. Hundreds of such pictures were made by the time he died. At the time of National Socialism , these works had a folkish undertone: "I paint the local people in the racial composition as they live here."

In addition to the pictures, he also regularly published Low German poems in the local newspaper. Since the 1950s he has also published his illustrated poems in book form.

Fonts

  • Buernkost: poems and drawings. Däil 1 . Hagen (Westphalia) 1953.
  • Buernkost: poems and drawings. Däil 2. Loup op dei Biärge . Lüdenscheid [1957].
  • Buernkost: poems and drawings. Däil 3. Häim! Hou, hou hó! Lüdenscheid 1967.
  • Olle un nigge tied . Lüdenscheid, 1974
  • Niëmm di Tiet! The fifth Bauck. Rûtegiëwen vam the Low German Working Group in the Heimatbund Märkischer Kreis. Naoh'm Dau'e van Heinz Wever. Altena, 1994
  • Grasp what can be grasped. From the illustrated travel diaries. Journey through the USA in 1929 . 1994.

literature

  • Hanne Wever: Well-traveled son of the muse inspires as a painter and poet . In: Heimatbund Märkischer Kreis (Hrsg.): Herscheid. Contributions to local and regional studies. Zimmermann Druck, Altena 1998, p. 113f.
  • Eckhard Trox, Susanne Conzen and Carolin Krüger-Bahr (eds.): Heinz Wever (1890-1966) - illustration, propaganda, portrait , Lüdenscheid: Cultural Department of the City of Lüdenscheid, 2016, ISBN 978-3-929614-61-9

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personal data
SURNAME Wever, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and Low German writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Herscheid
DATE OF DEATH 15th August 1966
Place of death Bad Breisig