Paula Wimmer

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Grave of Paula Wimmer in the forest cemetery in Dachau.

Paula Wimmer (born January 9, 1876 in Solln , Munich ; † June 15, 1971 in Dachau ) was a German painter and graphic artist of early Expressionism .

Biography and artistic work

Paula Wimmer, daughter of a well-known lawyer, was born in Solln in 1876. After attending secondary school for girls, she decided, in accordance with her talent for drawing and painting, which she showed at a very early age, for an artistic education; initially with Carl Johann Becker-Gundahl at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . There she met Franz von Stuck and Max Feldbauer . She continued her studies in Florence at the Academia , in Paris at the École Rancon and in 1908 at Max Feldbauer's private painting school in Dachau and Munich, where she devoted herself in particular to nude drawing and open-air painting. Together with Max Feldbauer, she worked in Griesbach / Lower Bavaria and accompanied him on a study trip to Brittany . When her teacher was appointed to Dresden, Paula Wimmer returned to Dachau, broke away from Max Feldbauer's impressionistic painting style and found her own artistic expression in experimental expressionism. Even as a student, Paula Wimmer was a member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich .

The artist also went on study trips to Venice, Florence, Rome and Paris. In 1914 she went to Berlin with her mother , where she lived for two years and met leading exponents of Expressionism who had a strong influence on her. Paula Wimmer found an influential patron in the well-known art critic Paul Westheim , who was particularly committed to the avant-garde of the time . Against strong resistance, she was also supported on her artistic path by Paul Cassirer , Alfred Kubin and Fritz Gurlitt . In Berlin, Paula Wimmer made friends with the German-Jewish poet Else Lasker-Schüler .

From 1916 she took her permanent residence in Dachau . There she attended the private painting school of Adolf Hölzel (1853–1934), who always came to Dachau in the summer months with a large group of students from Stuttgart, and belonged to Ida Kerkovius (1879–1970), Maria Langer-Schöller (1878–1969) and Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874–1927), to name just a few, among the so-called " painters ". Her landscape paintings in bright colors caused a stir at the time. Paula Wimmer also worked in various places as a fresco painter in the Dachau St. Jacob's Church . In the city on the Amper, the painter and graphic artist was a member of the "Dachau Artists' Group", the "Dachau Art Association" and the New Secession in Munich . In the 1920s and 1930s she hosted exhibitions in Munich, Rome, Vienna, Berlin, Paris, Stuttgart, Salzburg and the like with great success. a. In 1918 she was awarded the Silver State Medal in Salzburg . Paula Wimmer's success ended with the art dictation of the National Socialists , who classified their works as degenerate art and destroyed some of them. Therefore, she began to paint in a naive style with harmless pictorial subjects.

After the Second World War , her works were shown at exhibitions in the Haus der Kunst , Munich. In terms of its importance, it is one of the top artists among Dachau artists. Your pictures / graphics are now highly traded. In her adopted home, a street and the "Paula-Wimmer-Stube" in the Ludwig-Thoma-Haus commemorates the artist. Many of her works can be viewed in the Dachau painting gallery .

It should be emphasized that Paula Wimmer was always passionate about drawing cats. Likewise her repeatedly varied theme of horses in the circus ring (including numerous expressionist woodcuts).

Selected Works

  • Leonharditag in Tölz , oil / canvas (140 × 49 cm)
  • Circus , etching (13 × 9 cm)
  • Elephants in the ring , woodcut (17 × 27 cm)
  • Moosschwaige , oil / canvas (73 × 105 cm)
  • Dachau landscape , oil / canvas (28.5 × 42.5 cm)
  • Dachau artist masked ball , oil / canvas (80 × 64 cm)
  • Self-portrait , pastel (54 × 44 cm)
  • Spring flowers , tempera (22 × 28.5 cm)
  • Dachau children , oil / canvas (70 × 70 cm)
  • Winter joys , oil / cardboard (72 × 102 cm)
  • Arcade in the Dachauer Hofgarten , oil / canvas (52 × 41 cm)
  • Summer in Bloom , oil / canvas (53 × 106 cm)
  • Midsummer joys , oil / canvas (75 × 105 cm)
  • The stone bridge in Regensburg , oil / cardboard (36 × 75 cm)
  • Paris , oil / canvas (37.5 × 48 cm)
  • Bouquet of flowers , oil / canvas (57 × 51 cm)
  • Crouching cat , bronze
  • Sleeping cat , chalk (40 × 60 cm)
  • Neuhaus am Inn Castle , tempera (60 × 40 cm)

swell

  • Ottilie Thiemann-Stoedtner: Dachauer painter. The artist's place Dachau from 1801-1946, Dachau 1981, pp. 54–58.
  • Horst Heres (Hrsg.): Dachauer Gemäldegalerie. Bayerland-Verlag Dachau 1985.
  • Carl Thiemann: Memories of a Dachau Painter. Hans Zauner Verlag Dachau o. J.
  • Horst Ludwig (Hrsg.): Bruckmanns Lexikon der Münchner Kunst. Painter in the 19th and 20th centuries Century. Vol. 6; Munich 1994, p. 484 f.
  • LJ Reitmeier: Dachau the famous painter's place. Dachau no year
  • Paula Wimmer 1876–1971: "I played theater with colors". Catalog for the exhibition in the Gemäldegalerie Dachau November 25, 1994 to January 31, 1995. o. O. o. J.

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