Theodor Willnow
Julius Theodor Willnow (* 1815 in Kalisch ; † after 1861) was a German-Polish photographer and painter .
Life
Willnow began studying at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1835 . There he was a student in Karl Friedrich Schäffer's construction class and Josef Wintergerst's elementary class . Because of “lack of talent” he was expelled from the academy. From 1836 to 1840 he studied art in Berlin . In the 1840s he opened a studio in Kalisch, in 1843 he worked in Gdansk , and from 1851 to 1862 in Warsaw . Also in Saint Petersburg , where he went on an art trip in 1842, and in Berlin he worked as a daguerreotypist . His student in this field was the portrait painter Joseph Edward von Gillern .
As a painter, Willnow mainly created still lifes (flowers, fruits, etc.) and genre paintings . Later he also turned to photography. The contemporary art historian Georg Kaspar Nagler praised Willnow's still lifes and wrote about his photographs: “They stand out sharply without metallic sheen and have a peculiar sepia color ”.
literature
- Ireneusz Witold Dunajski: Fotografia w Gdańsku. Photography in Gdansk. 1839-1862 . Diart, Danzig 2013, ISBN 978-8-3922-6022-6 .
Web links
- Julius Teodor Willnow , entry in the portal fotorevers.eu (lexicon of photographers)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen )
- ^ Edward Gillern , entry in the fotorevers.eu portal , accessed on April 11, 2020
- ↑ Willnow, Theodor. In: Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon. Munich 1851, p 416 ( Google Books ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Willnow, Theodor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Willnow, Julius Theodor (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Polish photographer and painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1815 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kalisch |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1861 |