Walter Urbach

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Walter Urbach (born April 21, 1925 in Neuss ; † March 24, 2018 in Kaarst ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

life and work

In 1939 Urbach began an apprenticeship as a lithographer . In the last year of the war he enrolled at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf . In 1945, after the end of the war, the number of students was limited by the British military government . Urbach was accepted again. He studied with Ewald Mataré (evening act), Wilhelm Schmurr (drawing class), Otto Coester (etching), Wilhelm Herberholz (painting technique). Fellow students were Herbert Zangs and Joseph Beuys .

In 1949, following the example of his uncle, the painter and graphic artist Josef Urbach , Urbach switched to the Cologne factory schools to devote himself to applied graphics. In 1951 he passed the master's examination as a lithographer. Only late did he return to free artistic work. The first poppy pictures were created in 1970. The subject changed from the botanically accurate depiction to ever freer picture compositions. Urbach's abstract late work was discovered by Manfred Schneckenburger and Dieter Ronte and presented in numerous solo exhibitions in galleries and museums from 1999 onwards. Urbach lived and worked in Kaarst since 1963, was married and had three children. The author and director Tilman Urbach is his son.

Exhibitions (selection)

Catalogs / films

  • Walter Urbach, poppy painter , documentary film, 93 minutes, 2015, written and directed by Tilman Urbach
  • Walter Urbach, Papaver - Graphic Works, published by the Kunstmuseum Bonn, 2007
  • Walter Urbach, Mohn - Cosmos of Color , Clemens-Sels-Museum , Neuss, 2005
  • Walter Urbach, Papaver , Kunstmuseum Bonn , 2002

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personal data
SURNAME Urbach, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuss
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 2018
Place of death Kaarst