Paul H. Wolff

This article is about the artist Paul H. Wolff. For the judge see Paul Hugo Wolff .

Paul Hermann Wolff (born September 13, 1880 in Munich ; † January 26, 1955 there ) was a German set designer , landscape painter and draftsman.

Life

Paul Hermann Wolff was the son of the animal and landscape painter Hermann Wolff, who worked in Munich and was born in Detmold in 1841, and his wife Elisabeth, née Fong. After failing a 6-week probationary period at the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich in 1890 , he apparently continued his education for five more years, because he was not listed in the student lists of the Munich School of Applied Arts until the summer semester of 1896. Until the end of the summer semester of 1899 he trained here to become a decorative painter. In 1910 he married Ida Böhm from Vienna. Two children from this marriage died shortly after their birth.

Paul Hermann Wolff had probably worked as a decorative painter since completing his studies. The Almanac of the Bavarian State Theater for the playing year 1925/26 names him as a theater painter at the Munich National Theater ( State Opera ) under the technical director Adolf Linnebach and the artistic advisory board for the furnishings, Leo Pasetti . Wolff had a position as a foreman within the technical staff of the painter's room , who carried out the stage decorations. For the world premiere of Georg Vollerthun's musical tragedy Iceland-Saga on January 17, 1925 in the Munich State Opera, staged by Willi Wirk , the stage set had already been created under Wolff's direction in the previous season. Wolff had been on sick leave since 1934 and was put into permanent retirement as a theater painter on October 1, 1936.

Paul H. Wolff: Lavairsch in the Oberinntal ; gouache

As a freelance painter, Paul H. Wolff - as he signed most of his pictures - took part in the annual exhibitions in the Munich Glass Palace from at least 1912 and until the end of the 1930s. He showed landscape motifs, often with village views or rural properties, from the Bavarian Alps and South Tyrol, initially as pencil drawings, later mainly in the technique of tempera painting, in which he achieved convincing effects with fresh paint and bright colors. Many of his motifs appeared as art postcards.

The painter Paul H. Wolff is not identical to the photographer Paul Wolff or another Paul Wolff from Paderborn (* 1882) who studied decorative painting at the Munich School of Applied Arts.

literature

• Munich Latest News , No. 18, January 19, 1925, pp. 1-2
• Dressler's art manual 1930
• Süddeutsche Zeitung , No. 23, January 28, 1955, p. 11: Obituary
• Hans Zehetmair, Jürgen Schläder (ed.): National theater . The Bavarian State Opera . Munich 1992, p. 299
• Siegfried Weiß : Art career aspiration. Painter, graphic artist, sculptor. Former students of the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich from 1849 to 1918 . Allitera Verlag, Munich 2012, pp. 256–259 (Fig.)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Maximiliansgymnasium Munich, archive, matriculation 1890/91.
2. ^ Claudia Schmalhofer: The Kgl. Kunstgewerbeschule Munich (1868–1918). Your influence on the training of drawing teachers . Utz, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-8316-0542-2 , p. 372 ff. No. 5266.
3. ^ Munich, city archive, registration documents (PMB) Paul Hermann Wolff .
4. ^ Munich, Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, file 45407: Paul Wolff, Werkführer
5. ^ Official catalog of the annual exhibition in the Glaspalast in Munich in 1912 and 1918: Tenno bei Arco , pencil drawing; 1915: In the Langtaufertal , tempera; 1919: Burghof in Runkelstein near Bozen , drawing, 1921: From South Tyrol , pencil drawing; and following years
6. ^ Wiechmann picture card, Verlag Hermann A. Wiechmann Munich
7. ^ Claudia Schmalhofer: The Kgl. Kunstgewerbeschule Munich (1868–1918). Your influence on the training of drawing teachers . Utz, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-8316-0542-2 , p. 372 ff. No. 5267.