Walter Alfred Rosam

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Walter A. Rosam 1902, drawn by Franz Nölken

Walter Alfred Rosam (born October 25, 1883 in Hamburg , † August 14, 1916 in the Ukraine ) was a German post-impressionist painter and member of the Hamburg Art Club .

Live and act

Still life with flowers , 1910, oil on canvas, private property

From 1901 Walter Alfred Rosam was a student of the Hamburg painter Arthur Siebelist , co-founder of the Hamburg Art Club. In 1903 Rosam was accepted as a member; the following year he had his first solo exhibition at the Commeter gallery in Hamburg . In 1905 he married Ada Maria Hirschfeld, their daughter Lieselotte was born in 1906.

Painter at the Académie Matisse, left Rosam

With Franz Nölken and Friedrich Ahlers-Hestermann , painter friends from the artists' club, he took a trip to Paris in 1907 and there he joined the group of artists at the Café du Dôme . In March 1909 a second trip to Paris followed for further training, and with Nölken, Ahlers-Hestermann and Gretchen Wohlwill he became a student of the Académie Matisse , which was founded in the winter of 1907/1908 at the suggestion of Sarah Stein and the German painter Hans Purrmann , and which existed until 1911. “The three Hamburgers”, as Ahlers-Hestermann, Nölken and Rosam were called, painted, for example, landscapes in Meulan on the Seine and in their shared studio apartment on Boulevard Edgar Quinet, nudes of Parisian models . The main sponsor of the Siebelist students, Alfred Lichtwark , rejected the painterly results after the Paris trips because he could not make friends with the teachings of Matisse.

In 1910 and 1911, Rosam went on study trips to southern France and Italy. After the outbreak of the First World War he became a soldier in Königsberg . Walter Alfred Rosam was killed in the Ukraine on August 14, 1916.

Works

Village in France , 1912

Exhibitions

  • 1916: Hamburger Kunstverein, Hamburg
  • 1959: Three painters between Hamburg and Paris , Hamburger Kunstverein, Hamburg
  • 1965: Paris encounters , Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum , Duisburg
  • 1989: Matisse and his German students , Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern
  • 1996: Café du Dôme , Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven
  • 2000: The Great Inspiration - German Artists in the Académie Matisse (Friedrich Ahlers-Hestermann, Franz Nölken, Walter Alfred Rosam, Gretchen Wohlwill) , Kunstmuseum Ahlen
  • 2005: German artists from the Académie Matisse , Lindau City Museum

literature

  • Peter Kropmanns, Carina Schäfer: Private academies and studios in Paris at the turn of the century . In: The great inspiration. German artists in the Académie Matisse, vol. 3 . Art Museum Ahlen / Westf. 2004, ISBN 3-89946-041-3 (catalog of the exhibition of the same name, February 27 to May 1, 2000).
  • Carsten Meyer-Tönnesmann : The Hamburg artist club from 1897 . Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 1997, ISBN 3-881-32255-8

Web links

Commons : Walter Alfred Rosam  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carsten Meyer-Tönnesmann: The Hamburg Artist Club from 1897 . Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 1997, pp. 64, 106 f.
personal data
SURNAME Rosam, Walter Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German expressionist painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 1916
Place of death Ukraine