Walter Corde
Walter Balthasar Corde (born July 6, 1876 in Cologne , † October 8, 1944 in Düsseldorf ) was a German painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Corde, born in Cologne, grew up in Düsseldorf, studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There were Johann Peter Theodor Janssen and Willy Spatz his teachers. In his last year at the art academy he became a student of the Austrian painter Josef Huber-Feldkirch , from whom he received significant artistic impulses. He joined him permanently and became his assistant at the academy. During this time Max Burchartz was his student. After working as a freelance artist for two years, he was drafted into military service at the beginning of the First World War . Then he worked as an artist again and joined the "Niederrhein artist group". In 1920 pictures by Corde were represented in a group exhibition with works by Ernst Aufseeser , Juan Gris , Curt Stoermer and Walter von Wecus in the Alfred Flechtheim gallery in Düsseldorf. In 1928 Corde took part in the German Art Exhibition in the Düsseldorf Art Palace .
Works (selection)
- Draft of a cycle of pictures for the painting of the church of the Abdinghof monastery in Paderborn
- The job of women , frescoes for the auditorium of the daughter's school in Cologne-Mülheim
- Battle of the Amazons , 1925
- Amazon , 1927
- The Flight into Egypt , 1933
literature
- Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918. Volume 1: Abbema – Gurlitt. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7654-3009-9 , p. 441.
- Wilhelm Zils: New Düsseldorf Art . In: Die christliche Kunst , issue 4/5, Munich 1920, p. 69 ff. ( Digitized version )
Web links
- Walter Corde , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
- Walter Corde , Auction Results on artnet .de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Juan Gris , website in the portal alfredflechtheim.com , accessed on September 29, 2016
- ^ Deutsche Kunst 1928 , website in the portal eifel-und-kunst.de , accessed on September 29, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Corde, Walter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Corde, Walter Balthasar (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 6, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 8, 1944 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |