Paul Wendling

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Paul Wendling (* 1863 in Königsberg ; † December 27, 1933 in Berlin ) was a German painter and illustrator .

Life

Paul Wendling: In Seville

Paul Wendling was a popular illustrator for children's, school and fairy tale books. His graphic oeuvre also includes humorous and erotic drawings and posters .

As an oil painter, he mainly created small-format impressionist genre paintings , which often thematize the Rococo period . His motifs enjoyed great popularity and were often used for art postcards.

Paul Wendling was a member of the Reich Association of German Artists .

criticism

“At this time [Rococo, AdV] and its people, Paul Wendling found a favor that testifies to cultivated taste. He really shows us something of the soul and is not satisfied with clad any model in the costume of the past. We do not have a masquerade before us, but reality. Sometimes he achieves this through the choice of his colors, sometimes through the application of the same, which is content with hints. He guards against the too-definite and prefers to leave room for doubt. In deliberately working through his color scheme, he strictly adheres to the framework dictated by the choice of his fabrics, conception and brushwork are uniform, no anachronism hurts the eye. On the other hand, he does not enjoy atavisms at all, he does not enter into an ideal competition with any painter of the 18th century. He is a consciously modern artist, he paints something like Willibald Alexis says. A man of our day speaks to us in a way that we know and understand, but what he says and how he says it is so convincing that we like to believe him. Paul Wendling lives up to his reproach not only in painting, but also psychologically, he knows how to increase it to the level of intensity that turns each of his little pictures into a graceful little artistic experience. It pleases the eye and stimulates the imagination. Its lines are soft, the shapes are pale, the colors delicate, the feeling is weighed down with a sentimental note. He is one of those who, out of a gloomy, hopeless present, look around for the 'good old days' and have also found them on screen. Let's follow him into fairytale land and look forward to the piece of beauty he gives us. "

- Max von Boehn : Velhagen & Klasings monthly books

Works (selection)

  • At the green fountain

  • matinee

  • Visit after the bath

  • minuet

  • The new earrings

  • Lady in the park

  • To the evening star

Illustrations

  • Adolf Glaser : fairy tales. With 17 illustrations by Paul Wendling, Breslau 1888.
  • Jeanne Marie von Ganette-Georgens: Large illustrated playbook for girls. A selection of the most beautiful games, stimulating and entertaining activities and amusements both outdoors and in the room . With color print images and 305 original drawings by Paul Wendling. W. Herlet, Berlin, Leipzig, Stuttgart 1900.
  • Jan-Daniel Georgens : Large illustrated playbook for boys. A selection of the most beautiful games, stimulating and entertaining activities and amusements both outdoors and in the room. With color prints and 428 original drawings by Paul Wendling. W. Herlet, Berlin, Leipzig, Stuttgart 1900.
  • The secrets of the beach cabin. With numerous original illustrations by Paul Wendling, Walther Illner . Verlag des Kleine Witzblatt, Berlin undated (around 1905).
  • Do you have any idea! Dolle Zicken zapped by Wilhelm Neunauge, Budiker in Berlin NO. With sticker 50 image recognition from his regular Paule Wendling. Richard Eckstein, Berlin undated (around 1910).
  • Ugh, how naughty! New Struwelpeter stories . With original colored lithographs by Paul Wendling. Steinkamp, ​​Duisburg 1912.
  • You see, that's what happens! New Struwelpeter stories . With 16 colored picture stories by Paul Wendling and the designed inner lids. Steinkamp, ​​Duisburg 1913.
  • How's Naughty Children? New Struwelpeter stories. Steinkamp, ​​Duisburg 1913.
  • War pictures book 1914 1916. With pictures and verses by Paul Wendling. Steinkamp, ​​Duisburg 1916.
  • Wilhelm von Berg: A night of love. Illustrations by Paul Wendling. Verlag Moderne Lektüre, Berlin undated (1920), [Intima - sketches from life, 20].
  • Victor Laverrenz : Marine champagne. Marine humoresques. With illustrations by Paul Wendling. Publishing house of the Lustige Blätter (Dr. Eysler & Co.) GmbH, Berlin 1920.

Rococo painting

  • At the green fountain
  • Visit after the bath
  • Lady at the bookcase
  • Lady in the park
  • The new earrings
  • The court poet
  • The ring
  • The dancers
  • honeymoon
  • In the old park
  • In Seville
  • Leda
  • matinee
  • minuet

Genre images

  • To the evening star
  • Cavaliers on the roll
  • The procession
  • Wandering musicians

literature

  • Thieme-Becker : General Lexicon of the Visual Artists. From antiquity to the present. EA Seemann, Leipzig 1950, vol. 35.
  • Max von Boehn: Rococo. A chat about paintings by Paul Wendling . In: Velhagen & Klasings Monatshefte , 38 vol., Issue 9, May 1924, pp. 313-320.

Web links

Commons : Paul Wendling  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Other sources state that the year of birth was 1864.
  2. ↑ Max von Boehn: Rococo. A chat about paintings by Paul Wendling. In: Velhagen & Klasings Monatshefte , Volume 38, Issue 9, May 1924, p. 318.
personal data
SURNAME Wendling, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1933
Place of death Berlin