Josef Wedewer

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Josef Wedewer (born March 24, 1896 in Lüdinghausen ; † December 28, 1979 there ) was a painter and art teacher.

Life

From 1916 to 1918 Wedewer took part in the First World War as a gunner, including a stay in Koblenz. He then studied from 1919 to 1923 at the Kassel Art Academy, first with the landscape painter Curt Witte and from 1922 with Ewald Düllberg. After a short expressive phase, he became a representative of the New Objectivity style . He made study trips to Paris, Switzerland and Italy, among others. In 1924 he began working as a drawing teacher at the Schlaun grammar school in Münster. In 1927 he married his wife Thea. In the same year he co-founded the group “Young Westphalia” and a member of the West German Association of Artists, together with the hammer artist Theo Hölscher and Hans Kraft . Before 1933 he had exhibitions in the Alfred Flechtheim Gallery , Berlin; Neumann-Nierendorff Gallery, Berlin; Bruno Cassirer Gallery , Berlin. From 1933 onwards, mostly dark-toned atmospheric landscapes and cityscapes were created. From 1947 he painted his first abstract pictures, which from the 1960s onwards were increasingly expanded to include collage elements. In the last phase of his life he stayed in Ascona and dealt with landscape painting again .

Wedewer died in Lüdinghausen in 1979. He was the father of Rolf Wedewer , the long-time director of the Morsbroich Museum in Leverkusen . His works on paper, created in the 1960s, were donated to the collection of the Städtische Galerie Villa Zanders in Bergisch Gladbach .

Exhibitions

  • 1927 Kunsthallen Hansa Haus Essen: special exhibition Theo Hölscher and Josef Wedewer
  • 1956 Westfälischer Kunstverein Münster, Franck room gallery, Frankfurt / Main
  • 1957 Galerie Geschsame, Kassel, Galerie Stenzel, Munich, Märkisches Museum , Witten
  • 1958 Neue Galerie, Ingolstadt, Galerie Dauer, Munich, Galerie Clasing, Münster
  • 1959 Von der Heydt-Museum , Wuppertal, Galerie Neuburger, Duisburg, Galerie Faust, Cologne, Galerie Junge Kunst, Fulda
  • 1961 Beno Gallery, Zurich
  • 1966 Märkisches Museum, Witten
  • 1967 Wittrungen Castle, Gladbeck
  • 1969 Spectrum Gallery, Bochum, Small Gallery Hans-Miermann-Haus, Rheine
  • 1983 Gustav Lübcke Museum, Hamm
  • 1986 Volksbank Lüdinghausen
  • 1999 Ostendorff Gallery, Münster
  • 2000 Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History, Münster
  • 2005 retrospective on the 25th anniversary of death, Kaktus Kulturforum Lüdinghausen and Volksbank Lüdinghausen-Olfen
  • 2011 Ostendorff Gallery, Münster
  • 2014 Kaktus Kulturforum Lüdinghausen, double exhibition Burg Vischering and Burg Lüdinghausen, Lüdinghausen

Participation in group exhibitions in France, Switzerland, USA, Sweden

Publicly owned works

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  • Monograph Josef Wedewer, with texts by Lothar Romain and Rolf Wedewer, as well as texts by Adam C. Oellers
  • Represented by the Ostendorff Gallery, Münster
  • CH Hillenkamp: Josef Wedewer - Münster, in: German Art and Decoration, 63 1928/1929
  • CH Hillenkamp: Josef Wedewer - reference to a painter and other things, in: Der Schacht, Westf. Wochenschrift, 5 Jg. 1928/29
  • R. Rissen: On the paintings by Josef Wedewer, in: Die Westfälische Heimat, monthly for country, people and art, magazine of westf. Heimatbundes, 12 years old 1930
  • Anton Maxfein: Josef Wedewer, a Westphalian painter, in: The Grail, monthly for poetry and life, 24 year issue 5, Feb. 1930
  • Richard Bie: "Contemporary German Painting", Weimar 1930
  • Richard Bie: Josef Wedewer - Münster, in: German Art and Decoration, Darmstadt, Issue 8, 1931
  • Walter Dornseifer: Josef Wedewer - a Westphalian painter, in: Art and the beautiful home, 88th year, March 1976
  • Helmut Friedel, Ingeborg Güssow: Art and Technology in the 20s: New Objectivity and Objective Constructivism. Municipal gallery in the Lenbachhaus,

Munich 1980, ISBN 3-88645-000-7 , p. 279.

  • Adam C. Oellers: Iconographic Investigations into Portrait Painting of the New Objectivity, 1984
  • Mark Niehoff: The work of art of the month, September 201, LWL Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Westf. Landesmuseum, Münster
  • Elvira Meisel-Kemper: Joseph Hermann Wedewer, retrospective in Lüdinghausen, in: kontur 8, spring 2014

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personal data
SURNAME Wedewer, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludinghausen
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1979
Place of death Ludinghausen