Walter Heimig
Walter Wilhelm Heimig (born October 3, 1880 in Wesel ; † September 30, 1955 in Koblenz - Moselweiß ) was a German landscape , genre , figure and portrait painter and lithographer of the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Heimig, son of the Eupen- born Wesel lithographer Carl Theodor Hubert Heimig (1827–1903) and his wife Maria, née Beyer, left the high school in his hometown, which he had attended since 1890, prematurely. Following his artistic inclinations, he attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy for four and a half years from October 1900 . There were Peter Janssen the Elder , Claus Meyer and Eduard von Gebhardt , whose master class he was, his teachers.
In 1905 he won the Rome Scholarship from the Prussian Academy of the Arts , which enabled him to stay in Italy. In 1905/1906 he did military service as a one-year volunteer with Kleveschen Feldartillerie-Regiment Nr. 43 in Wesel. Then he settled as a painter in Düsseldorf , where he belonged to the artists' association Malkasten . The painters Walter Ophey and Toni Wolter were among his circle of friends . Since 1907 he was regularly represented at major German art exhibitions, such as the Great Berlin Art Exhibition , the Munich Glass Palace and the Great Art and Annual Exhibition of the Niederrhein Artists' Association . He went on study trips, including to Hungary , Dalmatia and the Netherlands . He lived in Paris for three years , where he familiarized himself with the painting styles and subjects of Impressionism and Fauvism .
During the First World War he fought in the rank of lieutenant on the Eastern Front . During the Second World War , in which his only son died, his Düsseldorf apartment, which he had lived in with his wife Ria, was destroyed by air raids . The couple moved to Bad Ems , which they knew from previous stays.
Heimig gained a reputation as a painter of gallant park and ball scenes, which he executed figuratively and with strong color accents. The hallmarks of these images are often women with long, sweeping skirts. The country and people of the Lower Rhine were also among his favorite subjects. In the field of lithography , his caricatures are highlighted.
Heimig died shortly before the age of 75 in a hospital in Koblenz-Moselweiß. His hometown Wesel honored him in 1956 with a memorial exhibition in their town hall and by naming the Walter-Heimig-Stege in the district of Fusternberg . Heimig's works are exhibited in the Koenraad Bosman Museum in Rees.
literature
- Thieme-Becker , Volume 16 (1923).
- Friedrich Rohde: Walter Heimig, an almost forgotten painter . In: Heimatkalender Kreis Wesel , year 1982, p. 118 f.
Web links
- Walter Heimig , website in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
- Deadline September 30, 1955 - Death of Walter Heimig , biography on the Wesel.de portal( City of Wesel )
- Walter Heimig , Auction Results on the Portal artnet .de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Inventory list , website in the malkasten.org portal
- ↑ Tour through the museum , website in the stadt-rees.de portal , accessed on February 1, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heimig, Walter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Heimig, Walter Wilhelm (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape, genre, figure and portrait painter and lithographer from the Düsseldorf School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 3, 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wesel |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 30, 1955 |
| Place of death | Koblenz - Moselle White |