Helmut Wellschmidt

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Helmut Wellschmidt (born March 12, 1930 in Teschen ; † April 8, 2015 in Nuremberg ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

After the family was expelled from Czechoslovakia in 1946 , Wellschmidt attended painting courses at Wacha in Neuburg an der Donau . From 1952 to 1958 he studied painting and graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg . Study trips took him to Switzerland, Italy, France and Spain. Since 1962 he had a second residence in Plön , Schleswig-Holstein . There he mainly dealt with building art and created mosaics and frescoes. In 1969 he started working as an art teacher at a private school in Nuremberg . After his retirement he worked exclusively as a freelance artist in Nuremberg.

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Helmut Wellschmidt's oil paintings, watercolors and graphics deal with the central questions of life and its transience. The painting cycle "Triptychon" from 1994 is a key work of his artistic work. Here the human being is thematized in his fate between birth and death in an almost nightmarish mood.

In his works the artist draws an arc from the past to the present . Bonds to the old masters, especially to the fantastic pictorial worlds of Hieronymus Bosch , are unmistakable. The excessively long limbs are full of gestures and are reminiscent of the body language of Expressionist artists. The representations, some of which seem almost caricatured, can be compared with the work of A. Paul Weber .

Works of art by Helmut Wellschmidt are in public collections in the cities of Nuremberg, Fürth and Schwabach.

Exhibitions

  • 1997: Bad Segeberg, Evangelical Academy North Elbe
  • 2005: Eichstätt former Johanniskirche
  • 2015: Berlin, Galerie Achtzig
  • 2016: Nuremberg, Galerie Jacobsa
  • 2016: Nuremberg, Friedenskirche Gallery
  • 2017: Vienna, Palais Pallfy

literature

  • Silke Hunzinger, “Learning to see and recognize” On the artistic work of Helmut Wellschmidt, Plön 1998.

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personal data
SURNAME Wellschmidt, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Teschen
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 2015
Place of death Nuremberg