Paul Wendt

This article deals with the painter, printmaker and sculptor; on the merchant and writer see Paul Jaromar Wendt (1840–1919).

Paul Wendt (born April 24, 1913 in Hamburg ; † March 23, 1995 ibid) was a north German painter , graphic artist and sculptor .

Life

Paul Wendt grew up in Hamburg during the First World War and in the Weimar Republic . After finishing school, he first learned the craft of a painter and varnisher . He then attended evening courses in art painting from 1933 to 1935, against his father's will, at what was then the State Art School, now the Hamburg University of Fine Arts . His teachers there were Willi Titze and Rudolf Neugebauer.

During the Second World War he worked from 1940 to 1942 in the Hamburg studio of the commercial artist Ottomar Anton . He then worked temporarily in Jena and Leipzig .

After the war Paul Wendt became a freelance artist. He founded his own studio in Hamburg - Eimsbüttel. He earned his living by teaching drawing and art painting and until 1978 with commissioned work for various companies, authorities and churches in Hamburg and the surrounding area. As a sculptor with various commissioned works in churches and through private commissions such as For example, the paintings by Daniel Wischer at Steinstrasse 15 in Hamburg, he made a name for himself not only nationally. Paul Wendt received international recognition for his "purple cows". However, a lack of financial means prevented an exhibition in Venice and the associated international breakthrough. Countless oil paintings, watercolors, graphics and drawings are owned by the family and well-known people to this day.

Paul Wendt was married twice (once widowed) and the father of 10 children.

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Paul Wendt's artistic work includes numerous works in various conventional painting techniques as well as sculpture. The subjects of his pictures mainly reflect his own living environment: Northern German landscapes (including Lüneburg Heath ), Hamburg cityscapes, still lifes and portraits .

In the specialist literature, his painting style is classified between late impressionism and north German expressionism .

literature

• AC Krüger: Paul Wendt . In: Kay Rump (Ed.), Maike Bruhns (Ed.): Der Neue Rump. Lexicon of fine artists in Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area . 2nd Edition. Wachtholz, Neumünster 2005, ISBN 3-529-02792-8 , p. 489.