Richard Winckel

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Drawing by Richard Winckel for the eighth war loan, Berlin 1918.

Richard Winckel (born July 5, 1870 in Berleburg , † February 10, 1941 in Magdeburg ) was a German painter, graphic artist and professor.

Live and act

Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Richard Winkel was born on July 5, 1870 as the eldest son of the Berleburg factory owner Wilhelm Winckel (1835–1902) and his wife Karoline, née. Born miner. After his first school years in his home town of Berleburg, he completed his Abitur at the Philippinum grammar school in Marburg and then attended the art academy in Düsseldorf . At the instigation of his parents, he trained as a lithographer in Nuremberg , since he was supposed to take over the graphic tasks in his father's printing shop. After his apprenticeship, Winckel initially worked as a lithographer in Leipzig , but then decided against joining his father's company and training as a painter. For this he took up studies in Munich and Berlin . From 1894 he stayed for study purposes at the Académie Julian in Paris . This was followed by study trips to Rome and London . In the last decade of the 19th century, he traveled to Germany, Italy and France, as evidenced by numerous sketchbooks (1894 booklets from Berlin, 1894/95 Paris, 1896 Munich), which are now in the Magdeburg Cultural History Museum .

His friendship with the publisher Reinhard Piper brought him orders for book titles and illustrations. After working as a freelance artist in Berlin until 1905, he was offered a call to the arts and crafts school in Magdeburg . Winckel received a professorship and was head of the course for etching and lithography until his retirement in 1932. During his teaching activities, he gained the reputation of being one of the best portrait graphic artists in Germany. In a memorandum on the arts and crafts school with the title Ars Una , he made his ideas about art lessons public. He taught well-known artists such as Annemarie Heise , Herbert Stockmann , Katharina Heise , Wilhelm Höpfner and Richard Oelze . As a versatile graphic artist, he mastered all printing techniques and left behind a wealth of portraits, cityscapes, landscapes and nature studies.

In 1917 he published a description of the mosaics of San Marco in a periodical for fine arts, with a large number of his own drawings. In a pamphlet with drawings about wild vegetables, he gave advice on selection and preparation in the same year.

family

Richard Winckel married on July 3, 1903 in Scheidnig, near what was then Breslau , Erna Roesler (born May 13, 1878 Breslau; † December 25, 1945 Magdeburg), the daughter of the sawmill owner Richard Roesler and his wife Marie nee. Sckur. The marriage had three children. The youngest daughter Ilse Renate Winckel (* 1914) later married the painter Sigmund Strecker .

Works (selection)

Lithographs: Prof. Emil Thormählen , around 1910; Prof. Theodor Volbehr , 1920; Prof. Albin Müller , 1930;

Etchings: Autumn Fair, 1910; View of St. Johannis, around 1920 (all Magdeburg Cultural History Museum).

literature

  • Richard Winckel: The mosaics of San Marco in Venice, in: Art and Artists: Illustrated monthly for fine arts and applied arts. Issue 5.1917, pp. 211-219.
  • Richard Winckel: Wild vegetables. Instructions for collecting and preparing. With directory and pictures. By Prof. Richard Winckel, Magdeburg, Verlag Buchhandel Karl Peters, Magdeburg 1917.
  • Gustav Adolf Müller (preface): Germany, Austria-Hungary and Switzerland scholars, artists and writers in word and image , Verlag Volger, Leipzig 1911.
  • Norbert Eisold: 1793–1963 School of Applied Arts and Crafts in Magdeburg , Magdeburg 1993.
  • Bernhard Strecker: The story of my mother - and thus mine: Ilse Strecker - memories, Bergmann Verlag 2015.
  • Matthias Puhle (ed.), Magdeburg in Pictures from 1492 to the 20th Century , Magdeburg 1997, pp. 251, 296 .
  • Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker : General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present. General Lexicon of Fine Artists, Vol. 36, Leipzig 1947, p. 60.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ev. Church of the city of Berleburg, baptismal register No. 24/1870.
  2. ^ Gustav Adolf Müller: Germany, Austria-Hungary and Switzerland scholars, artists and writers in word and image , Verlag Volger, Leipzig 1911, p. 663.
  3. ↑ painter lexicon - W: Winckel, Richard |. Retrieved May 15, 2020 (German).
  4. ↑ Winckel, Richard. Retrieved May 15, 2020 .
  5. ^ Richard Winckel (1870-1941) :: museum-digital: rheinland-pfalz. Retrieved May 15, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Norbert Eisold: 1793-1963 School of Applied Arts and Crafts Magdeburg , Magdeburg 1993, pp. 25, 55, 138f., 159 .
  7. ^ Art and artists: illustrated monthly for fine arts and applied arts (15.1917). Retrieved May 15, 2020 .
  8. ^ SBB Developers: Digitized collections of the Berlin State Library. Retrieved May 16, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Bernhard Strecker: The story of my mother - and thus mine: Ilse Strecker - memories, Bergmann Verlag 2015, pp. 4, 9 and 12.
personal data
SURNAME Winckel, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Berleburg
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1941
Place of death Magdeburg