Renz Waller
Renz Waller (born November 3, 1895 in Wiedenbrück , † October 8, 1979 in Mettmann ; actually Lorenz Waller ) was a German painter and falconer .
Life
The animal painter Renz Waller, son of the painter Anton Waller , is considered one of the most important falconers of the 20th century. From around 1920 he reintroduced falconry in Germany and was instrumental in founding the German Falcon Order (DFO) in 1923 , of which he was Order Master from 1932 to 1957. After increasing rifts with the DFO, he turned more and more to the Order of German Falconers (ODF) in the 1960s .
In 1942/43 Waller was the first to succeed in breeding a peregrine falcon in captivity. His book Der wilde Falk ist mein Gesell was published by Neumann-Neudamm in 1937 and has been regarded as the standard work of modern falconry ever since. The fifth edition of the book was published in 2010. Because of the increasing Allied air raids on the Rhineland, Waller was evacuated to Berghausen in what was then Wittgenstein County during the Second World War . There he inspired and supported the draftsman, animal and landscape painter Oswald Römer (1938–1998), who grew up in Berghausen .
In 1966 Renz Waller was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class. But his influence extended far beyond the borders of Germany - among other things, because of his services, he was an honorary member of falconry associations in the Netherlands, Austria, France, Italy and North America.
Waller studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . In addition to Willy Spatz and Franz Kiederich , Julius Paul Junghanns was his teacher there. He became Junghanns' master student. In the 1930s and 1950s he won several medals for his animal and hunting paintings at the International Hunting Exhibition (held in different cities). Several of his works as well as his falconry equipment are now part of the holdings of the German Hunting Museum in Munich . From the estate of the painter and falconer, the city of Mettmann set up the Renz-Waller Museum in the “Stadtgeschichtshaus”, Mittelstrasse.
Works
- The wild falcon is my companion , Neumann-Neudamm Morschen / Heina 1993, reprint of the first edition 1937, ISBN 3-7888-0648-6
literature
- Hugo Richter: Renz Waller. Painter, falconer, writer . A biography. Zollhaus Verlag Düsseldorf, 1985, ISBN 3-923328-06-0
Web links
- Literature by and about Renz Waller in the catalog of the German National Library
- Site of the city of Mettmann
Individual evidence
- ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Waller, Renz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Waller, Lorenz (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and falconer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 3, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wiedenbrück |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 8, 1979 |
| Place of death | Mettmann |