Vally Walter

Vally Walter (also: Walburga Ferdinanda Maria Clementina Vally Walter ; born April 27, 1877 in Rybnik , Upper Silesia ; † August 25, 1962 in Długopole Górne - German: Oberlangenau Lower Silesia ), was a German painter and teacher .

Life

Vally Walter was the daughter of an officer and a merchant's daughter from the Hoecker house in Oberlangenau in the county of Glatz . At the suggestion of her uncle, the academic painter Paul Hoecker , she too began an artistic career. At the Royal School of Applied Arts in Munich she attended the painting class of Professor Kleiber. At the time, it was not possible for women to train at the Royal Art Academy . After her apprenticeship, she found a job at Zucker & Co in Erlangen as a model draftsman in 1900. She later attended the art school in Wroclaw and then worked there at the Viktoriaschule as a teacher for drawing, gymnastics and handicraft.

During her time in Oberlangenau, Munich and Dachau, she often served as a model for her uncle Paul Hoecker. After his death in 1910, she took over the Hoecker House from him and saved it from inheritance disputes and attacks by the National Socialists . At the end of the war, she and her family had to leave their apartment in Brigittental in Breslau and move all the way to Oberlangenau.

In the expulsion of the German population from Upper Langenau 1946 Vally Walter was allowed to stay in the village with her husband and two daughters as a single German family because her daughter Dr. Maria Pompe was needed as a doctor by the - meanwhile - Polish population. In 1951 her daughter Theresia Pompe was killed by burglars. In 1962 Vally Walter died. Dr. Maria Pompe had to hand over the Hoecker house to the Polish authorities after having had it renovated beforehand.

literature

• Gottfried Sellig: Photo book on the home chronicle of Oberlangenau . Essen 1994