Herbert Wentscher (painter)

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Herbert Wentscher (born June 12, 1900 in Graudenz , † 1994 in Schopfheim ) was a German painter , art teacher and pedagogue .

Life

Herbert Wentscher was born in 1900 in Graudenz in West Prussia , today's Grudziądz. He received his artistic training from 1926 to 1928 at the Art Academy in Königsberg (Prussia) with Karl Storch and from 1929 to 1931 at the State Academy for Arts and Crafts in Wroclaw with Otto Mueller . He then lived in Gdansk until he was expelled after the end of the Second World War in 1945 . Via the stations Oldenburg (Oldb) and Hanover, where he worked as an art teacher in addition to painting, he then moved to Schopfheim in the Black Forest after his retirement . In 1968 the Landsmannschaft Westpreußen e. V. awarded the Marienburg Prize .

With his wife Clara (1912-2010), whom he married in 1941, he had a daughter and a son.

The son of the same name, Herbert Wentscher (* 1951), is a video artist and lecturer for visual communication at the Bauhaus University Weimar . Julius Wentscher , who also came from Graudenz, was a relative.

Exhibitions

  • Herbert Wentscher - Escape Drawings 1944–45. Städtische Galerie Villa Aichele, Loerrach, April 30 to June 4, 1995
  • Exhibition of works by Herbert Wentscher Sr., Schopfheim, from February 5, 1990
  • Julius Wentscher - Coast and Beach Pictures. Herbert Wentscher - paintings and drawings. Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg, September 23 to November 7, 1982

literature

  • Wentscher, Herbert . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 112 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Obituary for Clara Wentscher
personal data
SURNAME Wentscher, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, art teacher and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Graudenz
DATE OF DEATH 1994
Place of death Schopfheim