Paul Wallat

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Paul Wallat (born June 1, 1879 in Rostock , † November 24, 1964 in Sønderborg , Denmark) was a German painter and sculptor .

Life

Paul Wallat was the son of the shoemaker Gustav Wallat and brother of the sculptor Gustav Wallat . He completed an apprenticeship as a painter in Rostock and from 1899 to 1902 studied painting at the Hamburg School of Applied Arts . From 1902 to 1909 he studied at the Berlin Art Academy with the history painter Otto Brausewetter (1835–1904) and the marine painter Carl Saltzmann .

In 1905 and 1906 Paul Wallat traveled around the world on the MS “Charlotte” (“by the grace of the emperor”), later he stayed frequently in the Netherlands and Belgium. On December 29, 1906, he received the Ginsberg Foundation Prize of the Berlin Art Academy. Until 1917 he lived in Berlin, in 1918 he moved to Gehlsdorf near Rostock, and after 1949 to Denmark.

Paul Wallat died at the age of 85 and was buried in Sønderborg's Østre Kirkegård (East Cemetery).

Sculptural works

  • 1914: John Brinckman Fountain in Rostock (bronze relief stolen in summer 2009 and replaced by a new creation)
  • 1922: Memorial at the Ehrenfriedhof in Rostock
  • 1923: Memorial for the fallen soldiers of the Holstein Field Artillery Regiment No. 24 in Güstrow (demolished in 1942)
  • 1924: Draft for a memorial for the fallen (3 regiments) in Rostock
  • 1927: Monument to the fallen in Bützow
  • 1933: Monument to the fallen in Stavenhagen
  • around 1933: Statuette Fritz Reuter
  • 1930s: Reliefs with Rostock street names
  • 1930s: various building sculptures in Rostock

  • Relief from the fountain in Rostock

  • Beethoven relief in Rostock

  • Mozart relief in Rostock

  • Relief fisherman boy in Rostock

  • Monument to the fallen in Stavenhagen (figure destroyed)

Picturesque work

  • View of the Plau am See Church (1901), oil on cardboard, in Plauer's private collection

From 1904 Paul Wallat was regularly represented with his paintings at the great Berlin art exhibitions :

  • On the way home (1904)
  • Dutch deep sea fishermen going out (1905)
  • The Danish fleet leader Peter Dene in captivity (1908)
  • Evening in the Ice (1909)
  • Sorrowful Morning (1910)
  • Dutch Nest (etching), The Shipwrecked (1911)
  • Prayer of the Fisher Wives (1914)
  • Weddigen's heroic deed on September 22, 1914 (1916)
  • Thaw (1917)

In 1939, a birthday exhibition was dedicated to Paul Wallat as part of the exhibition Contemporary Mecklenburg Painters in the Mecklenburgisches Landesmuseum Schwerin on the occasion of his 60th birthday, with the following pictures on display:

  • Oil paintings: Rostock harbor, Wismar harbor, early spring, mill on the brook, Am Delft Canal, Hamburg harbor, cowshed, Gehlsdorfer Straße, old fishing port, wooden harbor Wismar (1935), incoming cog (1931), Dutch woman, along the stand - Kattwijk (1912 ), Am Strande, Holländer Hochseefischer (1905), (of which the last three pictures at the time in the possession of the State Museum)
  • Etchings: two Dutch motifs, Dordrecht, woman's head.

literature

Web links

Commons : Paul Wallat  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rostock address book for 1949/50 : under artists and portrait painters: Wallat, Paul, Rostock-Gehlsdorf, Kaulbachstr. 3 .
  2. ↑ Illustration of the grave of Paul Wallat on knerger.de
  3. ↑ Museum am Alten Garten (Mecklenburgisches Landesmuseum) (ed.). In: Contemporary Mecklenburg painters, connected with the Paul Wallat birthday exhibition. Schwerin, October 29 to November 19, 1939
personal data
SURNAME Wallat, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1964
Place of death Sønderborg , Denmark