Otto Winkelstrater

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Otto Winkelsträter (born October 9, 1901 in Langerfeld - Jesinghausen , today part of Wuppertal ; † May 6, 1955 in Lengerich , Westphalia) was a German painter .

Life

Winkelsträter grew up as the son of a textile manufacturer in Jesinghausen near Schwelm . At grammar school he was encouraged by his drawing teacher Grenz in his artistic training and painted his first pictures.

After graduating from high school, Winkelsträter did a commercial apprenticeship. At the Barmer Kunstgewerbeschule he studied under Ludwig Fahrenkrog and Gustav Wiethüchter and trained as a textile designer. He designed several textile samples and lace designs . In 1927 he married the weaver Ida Weithöner; the couple had three children. In 1934 he came to his wife's hometown in Gütersloh , East Westphalia , as part of his service obligation , where he worked as a department head at the employment office and as a painter until the end of the Second World War.

In 1946 Winkelsträter moved to Lengerich in the Steinfurt district.

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In terms of the choice of motifs, Winkelsträter's works resemble the works of the painters Paul Westerfrölke and Heinz Beck, who were also working in Gütersloh at the time . Westphalian city and landscape views, motifs from the rural environment and above all still lifes , especially meadow flowers and herbs , are predominant .

Between 1935 and 1938 Winkelsträter's pictures were exhibited at the art exhibition as part of the “Gütersloher Herbstwoche” (folk festival and business exhibition, today “Michaeliswoche”). The Reich Chamber of Culture had appointed him as curator for these exhibitions. In 1944 his pictures were shown in the "Lippstädter Art Exhibition". Nationally significant exhibitions of Winkelsträter's works were the “ Great Westphalian Art Exhibition ” in Dortmund and above all the “ Great German Art Exhibition ” in Munich, in whose editions between 1939 and 1944 Winkelsträter's works could be seen. Reich Minister Martin Bormann and armaments manufacturer Wilhelm Schmidding bought pictures of him that were exhibited there.

In 2013/14 the Gütersloh City Museum , which is in possession of several Winkelsträter pictures, showed a selection of works under the title “Heimat - Bilder”.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Commitment to the beauty of nature, in: GT-INFO No. 449, December 2013, pp. 22/23
  2. ↑ GDK Research - Image-based research platform to the Great German Art Exhibitions 1937-1944 in Munich
  3. ^ Stadtmuseum Gütersloh: Heimat-Bilder. Otto Winkelsträter and Paul Westerfrölke

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personal data
SURNAME Winkelstrater, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Jesinghausen , Langerfeld community , Schwelm district (now part of Wuppertal )
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1955
Place of death Lengerich (Westphalia)