Paul Wilhelmi (painter)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Paul Wilhelmi (born March 12, 1858 in Düsseldorf , † May 26, 1943 in Detroit , United States ) was a German-American panorama and portrait painter and illustrator of the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Wilhelmi was born as the son of the genre painter Heinrich Wilhelmi in Düsseldorf, where he attended the art academy from 1880 to 1886 . In 1886 he emigrated to the United States - enlisted by William Wehner's National Panorama Association (also  American Panorama Company ). There he first gained a foothold in Milwaukee ( Wisconsin ) and learned to make panoramas in a group of other painters - among others with Gustav Wendling . In the following year he went to Detroit, where he worked for a short time for the cycloramen company of August Lohr and Friedrich Wilhelm Heine and, together with Wendling and Otto von Ernst, ran the New Academy of Fine Arts . Then he went to Chicago , where he lived from 1890 to 1898. Among other things, he worked there in 1893 for the World's Columbian Exposition . In 1899 he went back to Detroit. Some time later he went to Australia as a panorama painter for two years . Before the First World War , Wilhelmi returned to the United States, where he opened a portrait studio in New York City . In 1933 he went back to Detroit with his wife and daughter. There he spent his old age. Wilhelmi had only a few students, but among them was the later famous architect Albert Kahn .

Work (selection)

The Battle of Shiloh , book illustration, published 1901
  • Participation in the Cyclorama Jerusalem on the Day of the Crucifixion , 1887
  • Portrait of the sculptor Julius Theodor Melchers , father of Gari Melchers , around 1900
  • Portrait of Marie Bangetor Melchers, wife of Julius Theodor Melchers (Portrait of a Woman with Shawl)
  • Portraits of naval officers, around 1911

literature

  • Peter C. Merrill: German Immigrant Artists in America. A Biographical Dictionary . Scarecrow Press, 1997, ISBN 978-0-81083-266-4 , p. 293

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hannah Heidi Levy: Famous Wisconsin Artists and Architects . Badger Books Inc., Oregon / Wisconsin 2004, ISBN 1-932542-12-4 , p. 42 ( Google Books )
  2. ↑ What Happened to the Panorama Painters , website (PDF) in the portal germanamericanpioneers.org , accessed on June 18, 2015
  3. ^ Arthur Hopkin Gibson, Beverly Bassett: Artists of Early Michigan. A Biographical Dictionary of Artists Native to or Active in Michigan. 1701-1900 . Wayne State University Press, 1975, ISBN 978-0-81431-528-6 , p. 246
  4. ^ Peter C. Merrill: German-American painters in Wisconsin . German-American Studies, Volume 16, Verlag Hans-Dieter Heinz, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 978-3-88099-638-0 , p. 15
  5. ^ Wilhelmi, Paul , Biography (PDF) in the portal germanamericanpioneers.org , accessed on June 18, 2015
  6. ↑ Portrait of a Woman with Shawl (Marie Bangetor Melchers) , website in the collections.si.edu portal , accessed on June 19, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Wilhelmi, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American portrait and panorama painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 1943
Place of death Detroit , United States