Joseph Wilms

Peter Joseph Wilms (born August 2, 1814 in Düsseldorf - Bilk ; † October 28, 1892 in Düsseldorf) was a German still life painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

A “nervous fever” robbed the nine-year-old of hearing and speech. At the age of 14, the deaf and mute began studying painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1829 with Theodor Hildebrandt and Wilhelm von Schadow . He didn't finish it until 1852. Because of his work in the field of still life painting, he soon caused a stir. Johann Peter Hasenclever depicted Wilms in the painting studio scene in 1836 . In 1848 he made a study trip to Strasbourg and in 1862 to Amsterdam , where he stayed for a year.

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Still life with champagne flute, grapes and peach (Dessert No. 7) , 1869

Wilms mainly painted still lifes, the compositions of which are reminiscent of Johann Wilhelm Preyer , and occasionally animal and genre pictures as well as portraits . He is one of those painters who broke away from the academic teaching tradition of Wilhelm von Schadow by painting, from his point of view, “objects of second choice” that “demolished the sublime and poetic idea in art” ( Ekkehard Mai ). The vanitas still life Die Nachlass des Ludwig von Milewski , created in 1849, has a special meaning , which uses trompe l'œil painting to fix the memory of a painter friend who was shot in the barricade during the German Revolution in the form of symbolic objects . Friedrich von Boetticher counted him among the "most important still life painters" at the end of the 19th century.

The student who became rich through inheritance , 1838

Punch service by lamplight , 1840

The legacy of Ludwig von Milewski , 1849

Revolution in the painter's studio , 1851

Still life with champagne flute, grapes and peach (Dessert No. 7) , 1869

A squirrel

Breakfast with champagne

Strawberries

literature

Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon . Publishing house of the Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 560 ( digitized version )
Hermann Arthur Lier: Wilms, Josef . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 43, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, p. 308 f.

Web links

Commons : Joseph Wilms - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Joseph Wilms , biography in the portal gdk-galerie.de

Individual evidence

↑ Ekkehard Mai: The German art academies in the 19th century. Artist training between tradition and avant-garde . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-412-20498-3 , p. 129 ( online ).
^ Katrin DuBois: The legacy of Ludwig von Milewski, 1849 . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Volume 2, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , p. 313 f. (Catalog No. 263).
^ Friedrich von Boetticher: Painters works of the nineteenth century . Volume 2, Dresden 1898, Leipzig 1944.

personal data
SURNAME	Wilms, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German still life painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH	August 2, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH	Düsseldorf - Bilk
DATE OF DEATH	October 28, 1892
Place of death	Dusseldorf

[1] Ekkehard Mai: The German art academies in the 19th century. Artist training between tradition and avant-garde . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-412-20498-3 , p. 129 ( online ).

[2] Katrin DuBois: The legacy of Ludwig von Milewski, 1849 . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Volume 2, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , p. 313 f. (Catalog No. 263).

[3] Friedrich von Boetticher: Painters works of the nineteenth century . Volume 2, Dresden 1898, Leipzig 1944.