Waldemar Flaig

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Waldemar Flaig: Self-Portrait, 1922 ( Franciscan Museum Villingen )

Waldemar Flaig (* 27. January 1892 in Villingen , † 4. April 1932 in Villingen) was a German painter of Expressionism .

life and work

Tatjana Barbakoff in Chinese costume , 1927
Moonlit night in Meersburg , 1931

Waldemar Flaig grew up in Villingen, attended the art and trade school in Karlsruhe and from 1911 to 1913 the art academy in Munich .

1915–1918 he took part in the First World War, which he artistically processed in 76 drawings in his war diary. Wounded in 1918, he was released from the hospital in 1919. After a brief interlude as co-owner of the Huber-Flaig arts and crafts workshops in Villingen, he moved to Meersburg in 1920 . From then on he worked there as a freelance artist and was able to record his first commercial and artistic successes in the Lake Constance region . In the same year he married Maria Thoma from Villingen († 1970).

In 1921 he painted a mural of the “Rider over Lake Constance” for the facade of the “Schreiberhäusles” in Constance by the writer Alice Berend . Flaig's preferred motifs included religious themes, landscapes (especially Lake Constance and the Black Forest ), the city of Meersburg and his children Hubert (1923–1943) and Erika (* 1927).

In the 1920s he sent exhibitions in Konstanz, Baden-Baden, Düsseldorf, Ulm and Dessau, where he also worked as a set designer for the Anhalt State Theater. In Meersburg he continued to spend the summers in addition to many large city stays. He joined the international Lake Constance artists' association Der Kreis around Norbert Jacques and painted portraits of famous contemporaries with whom he was known, including the painter Otto Dix , the writers Harriet Straub and Martin Andersen Nexø, and several portraits of the dancer Tatjana Barbakoff . Flaig also created illustrations for several books and in 1923 designed the emergency money for the city of Friedrichshafen .

In 1929 he helped equip the ballroom of the express steamer Bremen ; In 1930–1931 frescoes followed for a private house, the rectory and the morgue in Meersburg, the church in Hochemmingen and the two chapels of the hospital in Villingen (today the state vocational school for the hotel and catering trade ). Flaig's health deteriorated from 1931; During a stay for medical treatment, he died in 1932 in his hometown.

Later reception

Flaig's first portrait of the dancer Barbakoff was destroyed by the National Socialists as "degenerate" (the person portrayed herself was a victim of the Holocaust in Auschwitz in 1944). In 1942, however, a memorial exhibition was held in the Wessenberghaus in Konstanz, followed by an exhibition by the Munich Municipal Gallery in 1951. In 1974 the city of Villingen-Schwenningen held an exhibition; 1992 together with Meersburg a memorial exhibition. In 2002 in Meersburg the exhibition “Between the Times” commemorated his work. The gallery in the New Meersburg Palace shows several paintings in its permanent exhibition. The Franciscan Museum Villingen owns a large number of paintings by Flaig .

literature

  • Josef Fuchs (arrangement): Waldemar Flaig. 1892-1932. Pictures, watercolors, drawings. Exhibition in the old town hall Villingen . City of Villingen-Schwenningen 1974
  • Herbert Muhle, Elke Keiper: Waldemar Flaig, an artist's life , in: Bodensee-Hefte. ISSN  0006-548X . Vol. 43, Tägerwilen 1992, pp. 30-34
  • Wendelin Renn (Ed.): Waldemar Flaig. 1892-1932. Memorial exhibition. New Meersburg Castle and Villingen-Schwenningen Franciscan Museum . City of Villingen-Schwenningen 1992, ISBN 3-927987-20-4 (including Herbert Muhle: Waldemar Flaig for the hundredth birthday - an artist's life and Elke Keiper: Making the essentials visible - or: Color, light and blue shadows - landscape and portrait painting Waldemar Flaigs .)
  • Flaig, Waldemar, German landscape painter . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 118 .
  • Lust and passion, pain and disappointment. Expressionist artists in Villingen , exhibition catalog, Verlag der Stadt Villingen-Schwenningen, ibid. 2019, ISBN 978-3-939423-77-5

Web links

Commons : Waldemar Flaig  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information from http://waldemarflaig.de/ The register of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich does not contain his name, see http://matrikel.adbk.de/
  2. ^ Manfred Bosch: Bohème on Lake Constance. Literary life on the lake from 1900 to 1950. Libelle, Lengwil 1997, ISBN 3-909081-75-4 , p. 441; the picture was whitewashed by later owners.
  3. ↑ http://www.villingen-schwenningen.de/fileadmin/03KulBildWiss/Topthemen/110801_Tag_des_offenen_Denkmals_Flyer.pdf (as of August 25, 2011)
  4. ↑ CV from http://www.waldemarflaig.com/
  5. ↑ Information from http://www.waldemarflaig.com/
  6. ↑ cf. Entry at Vollmer
personal data
SURNAME Flaig, Waldemar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Villingen
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 1932
Place of death Villingen