Walter Timmling

Portrait of a boy ( ca.1920 )

Late Summer (1934)

Walter Timmling (born July 23, 1897 in Grimma , † June 14, 1948 in Pirna ) was a German art historian and painter . He is considered a representative of the New Objectivity .

Life

Walter Timmling studied art history with Paul Frankl in Halle and received his doctorate in 1924 . He was a student of Otto Dix at the Dresden Art Academy . He became known for his two reference works, Art History and Art History and The Art of Modern Literature. An impartial leader .

Timmling's subjects as a painter were boys, flowers, the mentally ill, landscapes, angels. In 1938 Walter Timmling was sentenced to five years in prison and subsequent preventive detention for pederasty . During this time a number of pictures were created with the subjects of the mentally ill and angels. In 1945 the majority of his previous pictures in his studio in Dresden were destroyed by the bombing. From 1946 to 1948 he lived and worked in Weesenstein . He was married to the art historian Charlotte Timmling.

Image collections

Weesenstein Castle Art Museum

City Museums Jena ( Romantic House )

Kunsthalle Kiel

numerous private collections

Fonts

Theoretical research on painting . Dissertation, University of Halle, May 7, 1924 (typed, one copy can be found in the Berlin State Library : call number MS 24/4497).
Genres and styles. Co-report . In: Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft , vol. 19 (1925), pp. 109–112.
Art history and art history. (= Small Literature Guide , Vol. 6). Koehler & Volckmar, Leipzig 1923.
Topic of art . In: Die Baulaterne , vol. 1, issue 4, April 1925.
The messenger Matthias Claudius . A new selection from his religious writings , compiled by Walter Timmling. Eckart-Verlag, Berlin 1927.
The most recent art literature. An impartial guide (= addendum to Koehler & Volckmar's literary guide , vol. 6: Art history and art history ). Koehler & Volckmar, Leipzig 1928.

with Hermann Ulrich: Film: Kitsch, Art, Propaganda (= Der Damm. Oldenburger Schriften 1). Schulzesche Verlagbuchhandlung R. Schwartz, Oldenburg 1933.

On the “theology” of the detective novel. At the same time a fundamental experiment on art and kitsch . In: Eckart. Blätter für Evangelische Geisteskultur , Vol. 8 (1932), pp. 390–394.

Prolegomena to the theology of the arts. In: Monthly publication for pastoral theology , vol. 38 (1948/49), issue 2, pp. 66–76 ( full text ).

literature

Werner Meinhof : Walter Timmling in the Lappan . In: Nachrichten für Stadt und Land , Oldenburg, No. 132 of May 17, 1931, supplement.
Timmling, Walter . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 449 .

Web links

Commons : Walter Timmling - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Walter Timmling in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Timmling, Walter . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 449 .

personal data
SURNAME	Timmling, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German art historian and painter
DATE OF BIRTH	July 23, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH	Grimma
DATE OF DEATH	June 14, 1948
Place of death	Pirna

[1] Timmling, Walter . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 449 .