Paul Wilhelm (painter)

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Paul Alfred Wilhelm (born March 29, 1886 in Greiz ; † October 23, 1965 in Radebeul ) was a German painter and graphic artist.

life and work

Paul Wilhelms' house, Gradsteg 46
Paul Wilhelm's tomb

He was born in Greiz in 1886 as the son of a cloth manufacturer. From 1904 to 1905 Wilhelm studied at the Königliche Kunstgewerbeschule in Dresden and between 1905 and 1912 at the Dresden Art Academy with Richard Müller , Oskar Zwintscher and Osmar Schindler . In 1908 he became a master student at Gotthardt Kuehl .

He had his first exhibition in 1910 at the Emil Richter Art Salon in Dresden. From 1911 he lived in the tower house of the Grundhof in Niederlößnitz , together with Karl Kröner and Wilhelm Claus . In 1920 he moved within Niederlößnitz to Gradsteg 46 to the Villa Elfriede , which (probably until then) had belonged to the writer and politician Max König . Between 1922 and 1924 he traveled frequently to Italy and France. As a full member of the German Association of Artists, Paul Wilhelm showed the oil painting of the Elbe landscape and a portrait of a woman at the 1929 DKB annual exhibition in the Cologne State House at the Rheinpark . In 1930 he received the Albrecht Dürer Prize from the city of Nuremberg. Since 1935 the painter belonged to Otto Griebel and Josef Hegenbarth in the " Circle of Seven ", who met for intellectual exchange on hikes. His last contribution to an exhibition before the Second World War was in the last DKB exhibition, which was forcibly closed by the National Socialists, in 1936 at the Hamburger Kunstverein .

In 1944, at the age of 58, he was drafted into the Navy and returned to Radebeul in 1945 from an American captivity. On August 24, 1946, he was made an honorary professor as representative of the Dresden painting school . In 1948 he rented the Minckwitzsche Weinberghaus as a summer studio.

On his 70th birthday in 1956 he was given honorary citizenship of the city of Radebeul . An honorary pension, which Paul Wilhelm received from 1960, enabled the artist to work without worrying about his existence in his final years.

He died on October 23, 1965 in his house at Gradsteg 46 and was buried in the Johannesfriedhof in Naundorf / Zitzschewig . The Prof. Wilhelm Ring in Radebeul has been named after him since 1967 . The so-called “Paul Wilhelm Wing” in the Luther Hall of the Radebeul Peace Church Community also commemorates the artist.

literature

  • Wilhelm, Paul . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 135 .
  • Frank Andert (Red.): Radebeul City Lexicon . Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Published by the Radebeul City Archives. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9 . , S.?.
  • Karin Gerhardt: Karl Kröner on his 125th birthday . Memorial exhibition in the Radebeul city gallery. In: Radebeuler Monatshefte eV (Ed.): Preview & Review; Monthly magazine for Radebeul and the surrounding area . April 2012 ( online version [accessed on April 2, 2012] with a photo of Karl Kröner and Paul Wilhelms with the wife of Hugo Erfurth and their daughter).

Web links

  • Karin Gerhardt: The everlasting beauty. An exhibition for the 125th birthday of the Radebeul painter Paul Wilhelm. In: Preview & Review; Monthly magazine for Radebeul and the surrounding area. Radebeuler Monatshefte eV, April 2011, accessed on April 3, 2011 .
  • Annelie Krause: Radebeul honorary citizen (part 6): Paul Wilhelm. In: Preview & Review; Monthly magazine for Radebeul and the surrounding area. Radebeuler Monatshefte eV, September 2010, accessed on January 4, 2011 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Radebeuler Official Gazette 4/2011; Page 1; The immortal beautiful, an exhibition for the 125th birthday of the Radebeul painter Paul Wilhelm; Karin Gerhardt, city gallery owner , ISSN  1865-5564 .
  2. ^ Address book Dresden with suburbs, 1915, Part VI, p. 358.
  3. ↑ s. Catalog of the Deutscher Künstlerbund Cologne 1929. May – September 1929 in the State House , M. DuMont Schauberg, Cologne 1929. (p. 33)
  4. ↑ 1936 forbidden pictures , exhibition catalog for the 34th annual exhibition of the DKB in Bonn, Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin 1986. (p. 99)
personal data
SURNAME Wilhelm, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilhelm, Paul Alfred (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Greiz
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1965
Place of death Radebeul