Walter Püttner
Walter Püttner (born October 9, 1872 in Leipzig , † February 10, 1953 at Maxlrain Castle near Bad Aibling ) was a German painter .
Life
Püttner was the son of the architect and landscape draftsman Richard Püttner , from whom he received his first painting lessons. Then he went to Munich for further training at the Academy of Fine Arts to Ludwig Herterich , Ludwig Löfftz and Paul Hoecker . He was artistically inspired by Wilhelm Trübner . He was a founding member of the artists' association Die Scholle and the Munich New Secession , where he was also on the board with Max Feldbauer . After his training in 1897 he worked as an illustrator for the weekly magazine Die Jugend . He taught at the women's academy of the Munich Artists' Association and was awarded the title of Professor. The motifs of his painting were cityscapes, portraits and interiors .
In 1900 he was the winner of a competition by Ludwig Stollwerck for designs for a Stollwerck scrapbook . Other award winners were Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke from Berlin, Ernst Neumann from Munich, Adolf Höfer from Munich, Maximilian Liebenwein from Burghausen and Karl Hölle from Hamburg. The judges were Emil Doepler the Elder . J., Woldemar Friedrich , Bruno Schmitz and Franz Skarbina from Berlin as well as a partner in the Stollwerck company.
Walter Püttner was a member of the German Association of Artists .
Works in museums and public exhibitions
- Bremen
- Darmstadt
- Dusseldorf
- Hanover
- Herrenchiemsee
- Kiel
- Ludwigshafen
- Munich:
- Bavarian State Painting Collection : soldiers , still life with cancer , self-portrait ,
- Munich City Museum : Marienplatz
- Municipal gallery in the Lenbachhaus : self-portrait , billeting in Pomerania
- State Graphic Collection Munich
- Fresco work in the jury court room of the Munich Palace of Justice
- Szczecin
- Vienna
- Wiesbaden
- Wuppertal
swell
- Andrea Jedelsky: Leo Putz and SCHOLLE. Catalog for the exhibition at Galerie Schüller, Munich 1999.
- Siegfried Unterberger, Felix Billeter and Ute Strimmer (ed.): The plaice. An artist group between the Secession and the Blauer Reiter . Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7913-3740-1
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Hofacker: Kunstgewerbeblatt. 11th year, Leipzig, 1900.
- ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Ordinary members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Püttner, Walther ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed December 15, 2015)
Web links
- ArtRoots.com: Walter Puettner (1872 Leipzig - 1953 Munich). ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Püttner, Walter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Püttner, Walther |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 9, 1872 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 10, 1953 |
| Place of death | Bad Aibling |