Paul Ernst Wilke
Paul Ernst Wilke (born November 7, 1894 in Bremerhaven , † December 30, 1971 in Lilienthal ) was a German impressionist painter.
biography
From 1913 Wilke attended the Bielefeld art school with the aim of becoming a landscape painter . In 1915 he became a soldier. Seriously wounded, he was released from the German army in 1916 . He used the time in a Berlin military hospital to continue his studies at the Berlin Art Academy . From 1916 to 1918, with the support of the city of Bremerhaven, he attended the Bremer Kunstgewerbeschule under Ernst Müller-Scheessel . For the next three years he studied in Berlin at the University of Fine Arts .
In 1921 he returned to his hometown Bremerhaven, where he worked as a freelancer until 1924 . In the following years he lived in Bremen , Debstedt and Hamburg , but kept returning to Bremerhaven. In 1939 he moved to Worpswede . From 1954 he lived here with his family in the former villa of Fritz Mackensen . He is buried in the local cemetery.
Because of his ties to his hometown Bremerhaven, he built himself a place to stay at the Old Port in Bremerhaven in 1948. He lived and worked in this studio until his death. Thanks to the commitment of the Friends of Paul Ernst Wilke , which was founded after his death, the studio house still stands. Today it offers artists from all over the world the opportunity to spend a painting stay in Bremerhaven.
Wilke was married three times, his first marriage (1922–1931) to Liese-Lotte Bunnenberg , known as Lale Andersen . Between 1924 and 1929 the couple had three children: Björn, Carmen-Litta and Michael Wilke .
Wilke studio
The Wilke studio in Bremerhaven-Mitte, Am Alten Vorhafen 2, was built in 1948 according to plans by Gerhard Diedrich. The small wooden house on the north mole of the Old Harbor has been a listed building in Bremen since 2010 . Wilke received a special permit under building regulations to build a studio here in the port area outside the Weser dike. After the painter's death, the house with the small garden lined with peat birches was restored. It has been made available to guest artists by the painter's circle of friends to live and work since 1985.
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The oeuvre of the landscape painter Wilke is in the tradition of the French and German impressionists . The content and stylistic means of expression of Impressionist painting shaped his entire life's work, despite all the rapid changes in the fine arts of the 20th century. The light, fleeting brushwork and light palette of that painting are expressed in his paintings with remarkable conciseness. He gained his eye for the wide world through various study trips and trips that took him to Iceland, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, France and Italy. Due to his origin from the coast, he remained connected to the subject of the sea in his pictures.
Individual evidence
Web links
- Literature by and about Paul Ernst Wilke in the catalog of the German National Library
- Paul Ernst Wilke ( Memento from October 22, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
- Freundeskreis Paul Ernst Wilke eV
Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 16.8 ″ N , 8 ° 34 ′ 45.1 ″ E
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wilke, Paul Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 7, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremerhaven |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 30, 1971 |
| Place of death | Lilienthal |