Theodor Wedepohl
Theodor Wedepohl (born April 12, 1863 in Exter (Vlotho) , † March 28, 1931 in New York City ) was a German-American genre, landscape and portrait painter.
Life
Wedepohl spent his youth in Westphalia and near Magdeburg. He began to paint as an autodidact and has shown his works publicly since 1878.
Wedepohl began his painting studies in 1882 at the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin . From 1887 he took part in the Berlin Academy exhibitions and other Berlin art exhibitions, such as the Great Berlin Art Exhibition from 1893 . In 1888 Wedepohl became a member of the Berlin Artists 'Association , and in 1892 of the Magdeburg St. Lukas Artists' Association.
In the period from 1892 to 1897 he worked in Magdeburg. He married Kathy Siegmund and became the father of Edgar Wedepohl (1894–1963), the future Berlin architect and university professor.
He spent the years 1900 and 1901 in Rome, from 1904 to 1906 in Essen and Dortmund. From 1906 he worked in Leipzig and Berlin, where he was appointed professor at the art academy.
Around 1910 he visited Iceland, where he created many landscape paintings. From around 1919 to 1926 he lived and worked in Bad Saarow, southeast of Berlin.
He emigrated to the United States in 1926 , where he lived mostly in New York City. His grave is in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf, southwest of Berlin.
Works (selection)
- Aesthetics of Perspective. About the effect, mood and beauty of the painterly perspective . Wasmuth Verlag 1919, 81 pages
- Image construction. A book for artists and art lovers e. Verlag Gerlitt & Pollak, 1931, 190 pages
literature
- Wedepohl, Theodor . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 35 : Libra-Wilhelmson . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1942, p. 240 .
- Peter Hastings Falk (ed.): Who Was Who in American Art 1564–1975 , Volume 3 1999, No. 3724
Web links
- Biography (PDF) in the portal Schawenka-stiftung.de
- Theodor Wedepohl , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wedepohl, Theodor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American landscape and genre painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 12, 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Exter (Vlotho) |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 28, 1931 |
| Place of death | New York City |