Paul Theissen (painter)
Paul Theissen (born March 10, 1915 in Essen , † 1994 in Kleve ) was a German painter.
education and profession
From 1934 to 1936 he was trained as a graphic designer by Josef Urbach at the Folkwang School in Essen . From 1937 Theissen worked as an illustrator at Bildgut-Verlag in Essen and created pictures for children's books. Since 1942 he was based in Kleve as a freelance painter and graphic artist.
Paul Theissen was a member of the "Künstlergilde Profil" founded by Hanns Lamers and Walther Brüx in Kleve in 1936, which was continued from 1947 under the name " Niederrheinischer Künstlerbund ". The other members included Achilles Moortgat , Albert Reibmayr , Alfred Sabisch , Hermann Teuber and Rudolf Schoofs . Because August Lüdecke-Cleve , Helmuth Liesegang , Heinrich Nauen and Joseph Beuys also took part in exhibitions.
Paul Theissen felt a great connection to the Lower Rhine landscape, which he drew and watercolored almost every day. Since he was denied an academic art course due to the war , he gained artistic experience, knowledge of the location and subject, comparable to the view of the painters of the Koekkoek school, for whom drawing in nature was more important than anything else.
He also worked as an illustrator and gave lessons in watercolor and drawing.
He participated in exhibitions in Essen, Duisburg, Munich, and in the exhibitions of the artists' guild "Profil" and the Niederrheinischer Künstlerbund Kleve.
In 2015, on his 100th birthday, an exhibition took place in Museum Haus Koekkoek Kleve, where the Dutch landscape painter Barend Cornelis Koekkoek lived and worked until his death in 1862.
literature
- Walther Brüx: Art on the Lower Rhine since 1900 Exhibition catalog . Publisher = GW Bösmann KG . 1966.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Theissen, Paul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schulte, Bernd |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 10, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | eat |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1994 |
| Place of death | Kleve |