Rolf-Dieter Meyer-Wiegand

Rolf-Dieter Meyer-Wiegand (* 1929 in Krefeld , † 2006 in Cologne ) was a German landscape painter .

Life

Meyer-Wiegand lived in an artistic environment. His father Hugo Meyer-Wiegand was concertmaster and conductor, his mother was the concert singer Martha Josephine Meyer-Wiegand, née. Pierigal. In 1939 the father took the name Meyer-Wiegand for himself, his wife and his two children .

Meyer-Wiegand broke off an apprenticeship as a dental technician at a young age in order to pursue his vocation of painting. The trips with his wife to France, the Netherlands and Belgium are reflected in his landscape paintings. Today his works are traded in relevant auction houses and galleries in particular in the Rhineland, but also in the Netherlands.

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Characteristic of his style were the mostly small-format paintings, panel paintings, which he worked out with oil paints on wood, with great attention to detail. While Pop Art and Nouveau Réalisme moved into museums, he had more of an affinity for the Düsseldorf School , whose heyday was already over. When Meyer-Wiegand enrolled at the Düsseldorf Academy at the beginning of the 1950s, this style was no longer taught, so that he continued his self-taught education. His role models were the French impressionists Eugène Boudin and Camille Pissarro . When he later also painted portraits, his art was based on models such as Edgar Degas and Édouard Vuillard .

On his travels he collected impressions, made notes, recorded details in sketches and photographed slides as a memory aid. In his studio he later converted his materials into the atmosphere he preferred for his painting. Meyer-Wiegand placed his preferred motifs, river landscapes on the Rhine, cityscapes of Paris , depictions of Dutch villages, beaches and ports, but also views of Düsseldorf and Cologne, in a historical-romanticizing context.

This also applies to the paintings in which he depicted people. In his portraits of women, one recognizes again and again the same woman who connoisseurs and art critics assume to be his wife Marianne. She also appears in depictions of couples in which the man portrayed next to her comes close to a self-portrait of the artist. These portraits also follow the sophisticated style that Meyer-Wiegand preferred. His lady usually appears in hats and clothes from the turn of the century, his couple is always elegantly dressed in the opera, on the racetrack or on a carriage ride.

Exhibitions

Eight years after his death in Cologne, the Huis voor de Kunst in Veendam, the Netherlands , presented an exhibition of the artist's works in the Veenkoloniaal Museum from May 25 to September 14, 2014. An extensive exhibition catalog was also published, which traces the paintings, but also the life of Meyer-Wiegand in the form of a monograph .

literature

And the Rhine flows calmly - Rolf-Dieter Meyer-Wiegand , exhibition catalog Huis voor de Kunst, Veendam 2014, ISBN 978-90-77050-27-9 .

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personal data
SURNAME	Meyer-Wiegand, Rolf-Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter
DATE OF BIRTH	1929
PLACE OF BIRTH	Krefeld
DATE OF DEATH	2006
Place of death	Cologne