Julius Wohlers

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Julius Ernst Christoph Wohlers (* 31 October 1867 in Hamburg , † 4. September 1953 in UK , today Jork at Stade ) was a German painter of Impressionism , graphic artist and art teacher .

Life

Julius Wohlers attended the Realgymnasium in Altona from 1876 to 1885 and studied painting and etching at the Academy in Berlin from 1886 to 1889 . In 1890 he went to Copenhagen as a student of the then well-known Danish painter Peter A. Schou . From 1892 on he lived as a freelance artist in Hamburg. He was a member of the Hamburg Artists' Association from 1832 .

Julius Wohlers 1895, painted by Alfred Mohrbutter

In the summer months, Wohlers often moved to the Altes Land , mainly to paint landscapes, but also portraits and animal pictures, based on local motifs.

Justus Brinckmann , director of the Hamburg Museum for Arts and Crafts , became aware of the young artist, his friend Alfred Mohrbutter and Otto Eckmann . He encouraged her to design tapestries for the Danish Scherrebeker weaving school . Brinckmann's intention was to revive the old Scandinavian weaving technique. Between 1896 and 1901, four tapestries and a pillow with geometric patterns were created based on Wohler's designs. The designs are no longer included.

In 1890 Wohlers made a study trip to Paris and was inspired by the French Impressionists.

In 1897 he was one of the founding members of the Hamburg Artists' Club from 1897 . It included many artists who are still known today, such as Ernst Eitner , Thomas Herbst , Arthur Illies , Friedrich Schaper and Arthur Siebelist . Her pictures of free painting , often with unusually strong colors for the time, aroused a lot of protest from old-school painters and other parts of the Hanseatic cultural scene. The Kunsthalle director Alfred Lichtwark was forbidden to continue buying works by the group for the Hamburger Kunsthalle . Wohlers visited in Hamburg also the so-called. Aktclub , which the Danish painter Peter Alfred Schou had set for revealing nude studies.

In 1901 Wohlers got a job as a teacher in a painting class at the School of Applied Arts in Hamburg and in 1915 as a drawing teacher at the School of Applied Arts for girls. In 1921 he married Marie Lewine Beck, the sister of his painting student Franz Beck. From 1926 until his retirement in 1931 he taught as a professor at the Hamburg State Art School . Julius Wohlers was also a member of the German Association of Artists .

In 1943 a bomb attack destroyed his apartment and studio on Mundsburger Damm and with it almost all of his early work. Only about 200 of his pictures survived the war. Wohlers moved to Mecklenburg and in 1944 to the Kingdom of Stade. Because of an eye problem, he was only able to paint small-format still lifes. He died almost blind in 1953.

His pictures can be seen today in the Hamburger Kunsthalle, the Altona Museum , the Schleswig-Holstein State Museum Schloss Gottorf and the Ernst Barlach Foundation in Güstrow.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Wohlers, Julius ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on November 22, 2016)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de

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personal data
SURNAME Wohlers, Julius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wohlers, Julius Ernst Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, art teacher, impressionist
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 4th September 1953
Place of death Kingdom , today Jork near Stade