Walter Bertram

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Walter Bertram (* 1901 in Würzburg , † 1993 in Mitterfelden) was a German painter and preservationist.

Life

Weilheim town hall

Walter Bertram, who wrote himself “Walther” when he enrolled at the Munich Art Academy in the winter semester of 1921/22, was mainly active as a monumental painter in the 1920s and 1930s. He was z. For example, together with the sculptor Jakob Rupp and the painter Alfons Epple, he was involved in decorating the new town hall in Weilheim in Upper Bavaria , which was inaugurated in 1935 .

But Bertram also furnished churches with paintings, for example the parish church of St. Josef in Waldfischbach .

In 1940 he created wall paintings in the apse and altars for the Munich parish church of the Visitation of Mary , which was built in 1933/34.

Like his contemporaries Josef Bergmann , Ludwig Magnus Hotter and Oskar Martin Amorbach, Bertram oriented himself towards modern-day painting.

From 1945 to 1966, Bertram, who temporarily worked as a state curator in the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation , was "the dominant man in church preservation of monuments in Bavaria". As such, he was appalled when the pastor of Lindenberg im Allgäu informed him in 1961 that the local church of St. Peter and Paul would be painted by the local decorative painter Paul Keck and not by Hermann Kaspar or one of his students, as suggested by Bertram would have. He added a damning comment to the pastor's message. Because, according to Bertram, the design of the vaulted church ceiling was a "task that required the highest level of skill in drawing and color as well as real inner momentum", and he was convinced that Keck was not able to do this: "That won't work!"

Bertram's tenure included the reconstruction of the Frauenkirche in Munich, which was largely destroyed in the Second World War . He published numerous articles.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Digitized version of the matriculation book . Bertram seems to have remained true to this spelling, but is listed in many sources, including the DNB, as "Walter Bertram".
  2. ↑ Luca von Prittwitz, The Weilheim town hall celebrates its birthday , November 15, 2016 at www.merkur.de
  3. ↑ Pictures from the church at www.kath-pfarrei-waldfischbach.de
  4. ↑ Parish Church of the Visitation of Mary on www.s362930573.online.de
  5. ↑ Bernd Feiler, The Blue Rider and the Archbishop. Religious tendencies, Christian faith and church confession in painting in Munich from 1911 to 1925 , Diss. Munich 2002, p. 284 ( digitized version )
  6. ↑ Ulrike Steiner, Keck can never do that! , in: Andreas Tacke (ed.), Herbst des Barock , Munich / Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-422-06229-7 , pp. 261–290, here p. 271
  7. ↑ Quoted from Ulrike Steiner, Keck can never do that! , in: Andreas Tacke (ed.), Herbst des Barock , Munich / Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-422-06229-7 , pp. 261–290, here p. 270.
  8. ↑ Astrid Lang: Looking edges. Lukas Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-867-32296-6 , p. 224 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
personal data
SURNAME Bertram, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bertram, Walther; Bertram, Walther Julius Engelbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and state curator
DATE OF BIRTH 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH 1993
Place of death Mitterfelden