Waldemar Coste

Waldemar Coste (born May 26, 1887 in Kiel , † February 28, 1948 in Glinde ) was a German painter.

Life

He began his studies at the Städelschen Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt am Main and continued from 1910 to 1913 with Wilhelm Trübner in Karlsruhe . Like his teacher, he was strongly influenced by the work of Wilhelm Leibl . Coste and other students from the Karlsruhe Art Academy joined the Hollerbach painters' colony in the Odenwald, founded by Franz Wallischeck and Arthur Grimm . After the First World War he went on extensive study trips to Denmark, Italy, Spain and Sweden. In 1926 he traveled to Spitzbergen with Bernhard Villinger and Sepp Allgeier for the filming of the film Milak, the Greenland Hunter , in which he participated as an actor . He fell ill with appendicitis and had to be operated by Villinger twice under the most primitive circumstances. Coste later lived in Erlach in Switzerland and in Glinde near Hamburg .

Waldemar Coste was married to Katharina, nee Baumgarten. The couple had two sons.

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Coste specialized in watercolors , oil paintings and frescoes . He created portraits , landscapes as well as religious and mythological representations. In 1927 he designed the frescoes in the staircase of the old auditorium of the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 100 years of the Hollerbach painters' colony . Art Association Neckar-Odenwald e. V. , accessed on August 6, 2020.
2. ↑ Bernhard Villinger: The Arctic is calling: With dog sled and camera through Spitzbergen and Greenland . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1929, p. 151 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
3. ^ ^{A b} Frank Berger: Waldemar Coste and the film "Milak, the Greenland Hunter" 1926 . In: Frankfurt and the North Pole. Researchers and discoverers in the eternal ice (= writings of the Historisches Museum Frankfurt am Main no. 26), Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-86568-285-7 , pp. 156–158.