Walter Wellenstein

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Walter Wellenstein (born May 21, 1898 in Dortmund , † October 17, 1970 in West Berlin ) was a German painter and draftsman . In the 1920s he gained fame as a book illustrator following a Black Romanticism to literary works by Elisabeth Dauthendey , ETA Hoffmann , the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen . During National Socialism he was unable to exhibit his expressionist works. As a “commissioner for art care” at the Reich Ministry of Aviation , he campaigned for artists who were struggling with economic difficulties. From 1945, in his function as managing director of the Professional Association of Visual Artists Berlin (BBK) until 1961 , he shaped the reconstruction of Berlin's cultural landscape in the post-war years .

Life

Walter Wellenstein's father Wilhelm (1864–1936) had studied mechanical engineering in Berlin and, after further training, was appointed government master builder in Berlin. From 1896 he was a senior teacher at the Royal School for Mechanical Engineers in Dortmund. The mother Olga Wellenstein née Hoehme (1878-1959) came from Berlin, where her parents ran a private school. After the father was appointed to the government council and member of the patent office in Berlin, the family moved from Dortmund to Berlin-Zehlendorf in 1901 .

From 1905 to 1917 Walter Wellenstein attended the Humanist Gymnasium in Berlin-Zehlendorf, where he passed the Abitur in April 1917. He was then used as a flag junior in World War I until the following year . From 1918 to 1924 he studied at the State College of the Berlin Museum of Applied Arts (since 1924 United State Schools for Free and Applied Arts ) with Emil Orlik . Wellenstein's fellow students included Erich M. Simon (1892–1978), Richard Kannenberg (born 1888), Joachim Rágòczy (1895–1975), Gerda Rotermund , Hannah Höch , Karl Hubbuch and Georg Grosz . In 1924, the teaching establishment was dissolved as an independent institution and transferred to the Academic University of Fine Arts on Steinplatz , the forerunner of today's Berlin University of the Arts (UdK).

In the same year, Wellenstein had his first solo exhibition in Berlin at the Fritz Gurlitt Gallery , which was continued by his son Wolfgang after his death in 1893 . In the 1920s, Wellenstein worked as an illustrator for the publishing house of the German School Library in Berlin. He illustrated fairy tales, stories and children's books, among others by Hans Christian Andersen , the Brothers Grimm and Heinrich Heine . In 1926 he married the fashion illustrator Ilsabe Kamieth, who was born in Berlin in 1899. The marriage ended in divorce in 1934. From 1927 to 1931, Wellenstein traveled to Spain, Morocco, northern Italy, southern France and Switzerland.

National Socialism

From 1934 he was an artistic collaborator for the specialist newspaper Deutsche Artistenwelt . Through the mediation of Hellmuth Volkmann , whom he had met as a Reichswehr officer in the mid-1920s in the house of his in-laws, Wellenstein was appointed "Artistic Care Representative" at the Reich Aviation Ministry in 1934 and from 1938 at the Reich Sports Leader . In this function he brokered numerous acquisitions or commissions to visual artists such as Karl Rössing or Georg Kolbe in the following years . In 1941 Rössing was able to travel to Crete on behalf of Walter Wellenstein. Through Wellenstein's mediation, Georg Kolbe executed several large male nude figures for the Reich Ministry of Aviation, which were set up near barracks.

After the war, a number of artists who had received orders for the Reich Aviation Ministry through Wellenstein confirmed in written declarations that Wellenstein had campaigned for those who were struggling with economic difficulties. These included statements by August Wilhelm Dressler , Heinrich Ehmsen , Heinrich Graf Luckner , Max Kaus , Oskar Nerlinger , Ernst Schumacher , Renée Sintenis and Richard Scheibe .

In 1936, Wellenstein became a member of the Association of Berlin Artists, founded in 1841 . (VBK). In 1937 he married Ingeborg Loesch (called Ingrid), in 1941 their son Tilman was born. In the same year, Wellenstein became head of the graphic cabinet at the Berlin Artists' Association, today's house on Lützowplatz , in whose rooms he maintained his studio. From October to November 1942, under Wellenstein's direction, the autumn exhibition “Munich Collections” was held in the Graphisches Kabinett at the Association of Berlin Artists at Lützowplatz 9 in Berlin. In 1943 he took part in the exhibition “ Young Art in the German Reich ” with two paintings . The exhibition was carried out on behalf of Reich Governor and Reich Leader Baldur von Schirach in 1943 in the Vienna Künstlerhaus . Along with the “30 German Artists” exhibition organized by the National Socialist German Student Union in Berlin in 1933, it was one of the few official Nazi exhibitions that was closed due to “alleged suspicion of art degeneration ”. The exhibition was a provocation that was not intended as a resistance against the Nazi regime itself. Schirach wanted to try to break out of the “sterility of official exhibitions” in order to reopen the expressionism debate that was fierce in Germany in 1933/1934 .

In 1943, due to the increasing military threat, Wellenstein and his family moved to a farm west of Berlin. In 1944 the family moved to Rathenow . Meanwhile, Wellenstein's paintings stored in Berlin were destroyed in a bomb attack. Shortly before the end of the war he was drafted into the Volkssturm . After the Red Army marched into Berlin, he was interned, but was released again through the mediation of Heinrich Ehmsen and moved into an apartment with his family on Mangerstraße in Potsdam , where he worked for the Kulturbund for the democratic renewal of Germany from 1946 .

post war period

In 1950, Wellenstein moved from Potsdam to Berlin-Zehlendorf. In the same year, at the founding meeting, he was elected managing director of the Professional Association of Visual Artists Berlin (BBK), which one year later already had over 400 members. In 1951, Wellenstein was one of the co-founders of the Berlin artists' association "Der Ring". The members included Erhard Groß, Wilhelm Peter August Helmstedt, Arno Mohr , Arthur Fauser , Peter Steinforth , Alfred Kubin , Wolf Röhricht , Siegmund Lympasik , Ulrich Knispel , Otto Eglau , Erich Waske , Georg von Stryk (Gory), Erich Fritz Reuter , Gerhart Schreiter , Hans Szym and Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp . Wellenstein and his artist colleagues exhibited for several years in the Haus am Waldsee in Berlin-Zehlendorf . In 1954 he was the main organizer of the Federal Conference of German State Professional Associations of Visual Artists, whose speakers included Wellenstein, Alfred Gellhorn , Will Grohmann , Adolf Jannasch and Wilhelm Weischedel . At the conference, 20 organizations joined together to form the “Kulturkreis Berlin”, in which Wellenstein was elected to the board as treasurer.

From 1955, Wellenstein worked for the satirical magazine Simplicissimus, newly founded by Olaf Iversen . On the basis of two drawings that appeared there in the late 1950s, Wellenstein was charged with “blasphemy”. In 1956 he played a key role in the creation of the first major Berlin art exhibition after the war, which opened on May 25 in the festival hall at the Berlin radio tower . In 1961 he resigned his offices at the BBK and devoted himself entirely to his artistic work. Until 1969 he made trips to Tenerife, Switzerland, Rome and Paris. On the occasion of his 70th birthday in 1968, the Wilhelm Busch Museum in Hanover organized a solo exhibition for him, which was then shown in Berlin and Dortmund. Walter Wellenstein died in October 1970 at the age of 73 in West Berlin .

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Walter Wellenstein, who had primarily received training with a focus on the applied field, was known primarily as a draftsman to a wider public. With the publication of Elisabeth Dauthendey's fairy tales from today in 1920, Wellenstein began working as a book illustrator. In 1923 he published illustrations for works by ETA Hoffmann for the first time . In the 1920s he illustrated newspapers, magazines, yearbooks, anthologies and calendars for the People's Association of Book Friends . In the 1950s he illustrated the complete edition of ETA Hoffmann and worked for the Simplicissimus .

Wellenstein had begun painting years before his studies, which from the 1930s onwards occupied a major part of his artistic work. In the early 1930s, the first “café pictures” were created, which showed people in bars, restaurants or variety theaters and which, like works by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , Georg Tappert , Otto Dix , George Grosz , Jeanne Mammen , Rudolf Schlichter or Karl Hubbuch, show the hustle and bustle of the big city Berlins thematized. At the same time, paintings were created about the circus, the ring, the fairground, clowns, the carnival, the theater or the cabaret. In the early 1930s, based on the paintings by James Ensor , the first mask pictures such as Verregnetes Maskenfest (1935, oil on canvas, 62 × 57 cm, private collection Düsseldorf) were created in which people appeared in droves, formed parades, as hooded men chasing each other and in which the grotesque emerged. During a trip to Spain, Wellenstein had seen paintings by El Greco and Francisco de Goyas Los Caprichos , his Los Disparates and the Desastres de la Guerra . In addition to the ghostly and the grotesque, the caricatures also emerged in Wellenstein's paintings. His pictures Der Demagoge (1941, oil on cardboard, 29 × 39 cm, private collection Berlin), Camouflage through masks (1941, oil on hardboard, 18 × 25 cm, private collection Berlin), Böses Geflüster (1942, oil on cardboard, 29 × 39 cm, Rollwagen Collection, Börssum) or Der Propagandist (1943, oil on cardboard, 16 × 21 cm, Wellenstein Collection, Paris) contained allusions to current political events in the 1930s. Wellenstein was unable to exhibit his important work during the Nazi era. Instead, he switched to depictions of landscapes such as Flugblick über Inselland (1938, oil on canvas, 65.5 × 80 cm), Abend am Waldteich (1940, oil on canvas, 86.5 × 83.5 cm) or Rest of the Shepherds (1941 , Oil on canvas, 70.5 × 106 cm).

The museum director Eberhard Roters put Wellenstein's work in connection with the artistic work of Karl Hofer , Hans Grundig , Edgar Ende , Heinz Trökes , Walter Tiemann and Mac Zimmermann : “The thirties and forties certainly have to do with social and political conditions in Germany during those decades, produced a specifically German realism ... which reacts to the existential insecurity of the individual and his threat at the time, and which, as is usually the case with such special developments, has hitherto been in the blind spot of the Consideration of art history has remained. "

The painter Otto Nagel commented on Wellenstein's painting at an opening speech in the Potsdam Kulturbundhaus in 1948: “By masking people, Wellenstein depicts their real life”. In the 1950s and 1960s, Wellenstein's painting became more contoured. In his works he addressed the post-war years , painted ruins ( ruin and abandoned new building , 1961, oil on hardboard, 70 × 90 cm, private collection Düsseldorf), abandoned corners and empty spaces.

Part of Walter Wellenstein's estate is in the German Art Archive of the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg.

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • 1924: Walter Wellenstein , Galerie Wolfgang Gurlitt , Munich
  • 1925: Walter Wellenstein, Walter Kohlhoff, Luciano Baldessari , Galerie Wolfgang Gurlitt, Munich
  • 1930: Walter Wellenstein painting exhibition , House of the Jury Free , Berlin
  • 1937: Walter Wellenstein, Carl Eugen Schwenk, Johanna Schwenk-Baldeweg , Galerie Wolfgang Gurlitt, Munich
  • 1939: Walter Wellenstein , Württembergischer Kunstverein , Stuttgart
  • 1948: Collections by Carl Kayser-Eichberg , Magnus Zeller and Walter Wellenstein , Kulturbundhaus, Potsdam
  • 1952: Walter Wellenstein. Drawings from the last 10 years , Kunstamt Charlottenburg, Berlin
  • 1956: Walter Wellenstein. Drawings 1946–1956 , Galerie Wolfgang Gurlitt, Munich
  • 1958: Walter Wellenstein. Paintings, drawings. For his 60th birthday , Haus am Lützowplatz , Berlin
  • 1959: Walter Wellenstein. Drawings , GEDOK House, Stuttgart
  • 1965: Walter Wellenstein. Paintings and drawings , Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin
  • 1965: Walter Wellenstein, Berlin. Paintings and drawings , Paula-Modersohn-Becker-Haus , Bremen
  • 1968: Walter Wellenstein. Critical Graphics , Wilhelm Busch Museum , Hanover; Reinickendorf Town Hall, Berlin
  • 1969: Walter Wellenstein. Free drawings and illustrations 1945–1969 , Kunstamt Zehlendorf / Stadtbücherei, Berlin
  • 1973: Walter Wellenstein. Bookplate and small graphics , Braunschweig city hall
  • 1974: Walter Wellenstein (1898–1970). 60 drawings , Galerie Wolfgang Gurlitt, Munich
  • 1978: Walter Wellenstein. Oil paintings, drawings , Wedding Art Office, Berlin
  • 1978: Walter Wellenstein. Designs, drawings , Center Français de Berlin , Berlin
  • 1984: Walter Wellenstein. Paintings and drawings , Galerie Fasanenstrasse 71, Berlin
  • 1984: Carnival with Ludwig Gies and Walter Wellenstein , KPM-Staatliche Porzellanmanufaktur, Berlin
  • 1987: Walter Wellenstein (1898–1970). Oil paintings, watercolors and pen drawings , Galerie Lippeck, Berlin
  • 1996–1997: Walter Wellenstein. Masked ghost of the post-war period , Old Town Hall , Potsdam

Group exhibitions

  • 1924: Jury-free art show 1924 , state exhibition building, Berlin (also 1925, 1927, 1928, 1929)
  • 1930: Great Berlin Art Exhibition , Bellevue Palace , Berlin
  • 1935: Exhibition of Berlin Art 1935 , House of the Japanese Embassy, ​​Berlin (also 1936, 1939)
  • 1937: Spring exhibition , Association of Berlin Artists , Berlin
  • 1939: The creation of the picture , Association of Berlin Artists, Berlin
  • 1943: Young art in the German Empire , Wiener Künstlerhaus , Vienna
  • 1946: Collective exhibition of individual Potsdam artists , Kulturbundhaus Potsdam, Potsdam
  • 1946: Fantastic dream graphics , Archivarion art gallery, Berlin
  • 1950: Exhibition of artists from Zehlendorf. Painting-graphic-plastic , Haus am Waldsee , Berlin
  • 1951: The ring. Painting-graphic-plastic , Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
  • 1953: Artist from Zehlendorf , Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
  • 1954: Zehlendorf artist. Painting-graphic-plastic , Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
  • 1955: The Ring , Paula-Modersohn-Becker-Haus, Bremen
  • 1956: The Ring , City Museum, Ludwigshafen
  • 1959: Berlin painter and sculptor , recreation house of the Bayer paintworks, Leverkusen
  • 1960: Landscapes and Still Life , Wilmersdorf Town Hall, Berlin
  • 1962: Exhibition of Berlin artists , Siemens-Elektrowerke House, Munich
  • 1963: Large art exhibition Munich 1963 , Haus der Kunst , Munich (also 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968)
  • 1966: Berlin in the picture of its painters. Oil paintings-pastels-watercolors , Charlottenburg Town Hall, Berlin
  • 1973: Artists see artists , Galerie Pels-Leusden , Berlin
  • 1975: Dance in Art for the Last 100 Years , Galerie Pels-Leusden , Berlin
  • 1976: Graphic artist der horen , Hannoverscher Künstlerverein , Kubus at the Aegidienkirche, Hanover
  • 1978: Berliner Leben , Kunstamt Wedding, Berlin
  • 1981: The artist and death , Galerie Pels-Leusden, Berlin
  • 1981: ETA Hoffmann. Illustrated books 1840–1980 , Hochschule der Künste , Berlin
  • 1985: From Schwind to Hockney . Artist on fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm , Haus am Lützowplatz , Berlin
  • 1985: Light of the South. Pictures by German painters , Galerie Pels-Leusden, Berlin
  • 1987: Collective exhibition , Galerie Lippeck, Berlin

Working in public collections

Publications (selection)

Illustrations

  • Elisabeth Dauthendey : Today's Fairy Tales. With 16 illustrations by Walter Wellenstein. Life books of youth. Vol. 41. Westermann, Braunschweig 1920.
  • Albert Sergel : Under the Holderbusch. New children's poems. With drawings by Walter Wellenstein. Chryselius, Berlin 1923.
  • Ignaz Denner : ETA Hoffmann. With 12 hand-colored lithographs by Walter Wellenstein. Chryselius, Berlin 1923.
  • Hans Christian Andersen : The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep and other fairy tales. Special dormer window with 1 original etching by Walter Wellenstein. F. Heyder, Berlin-Zehlendorf 1924.
  • Heinrich Heine : dream images. With 17 etchings by Walter Wellenstein. F. Heyder, Berlin-Zehlendorf 1924.
  • Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm : Little Brothers and Sisters and Other Fairy Tales. Special edition with 1 original etching by Walter Wellenstein. F. Heyder, Berlin-Zehlendorf 1924.
  • The book of Tobias. With twelve etchings by Walter Wellenstein. With an afterword by Karl Ruhkopf. Volksverband der Bücherfreunde / Wegweiser-Verlag, Berlin 1925.
  • Hans Körnchen (Ed.): Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Children's and Household Tales. With illustrations by Walter Wellenstein. Wegweiser-Verlag, Berlin 1925.
  • Wilhelm Spohr (ed.): German brothers abroad. Cover and illustrations by Walter Wellenstein. Publishing house of the German School Library, Berlin 1927.
  • Wilhelm Hauff : The caravan. With drawings by Walter Wellenstein. F. Heyder, Berlin-Zehlendorf 1927.
  • Walter Wellenstein, Werner Lindner : Home and Nature. German Federation of Homeland Protection and State Bodies for the Preservation of Natural Monuments in Prussia, Publishing House of the German School Library, Berlin 1928.
  • Julius Zeitler (Ed.): Love stories. Classic German narrator. With 91 pen drawings by Walter Wellenstein. German Book Community, Berlin 1945.
  • Bruno H. Bürgel : The strange stories of Doctor Ulebuhle. A book for young and old who stayed young. With 29 drawings by Walter Wellenstein. Verlag des Druckhaus Tempelhof, Berlin 1949 (new edition 1953 by Deutscher Verlag, Berlin).
  • Klaus Kanzog (Ed.): ETA Hoffmann. Poetic works. With pen drawings by Walter Wellenstein. 12 volumes. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1957–1962, ISBN 978-3-11-005651-8 (new edition 1993, ISBN 978-3-11-013877-1 ).
  • Adolf Heilborn : The trip to Berlin. With drawings by Walter Wellenstein. Rembrandt-Verlag, Berlin 1966.
  • Georg Hermann : Walk in Potsdam. With drawings by Walter Wellenstein. Rembrandt-Verlag, Berlin 1966.

Portfolios

  • Travel guide through Prialbsta. In memory of the festival in the happy port of art. 8 original lithographs. State Museum of Applied Arts, Berlin 1921.
  • Fantasies about the strange story of Mr. ETA Hoffmann. 12 original lithographs by Walter Wellenstein. With a text by Stephan Helm. F. Heyder, Berlin-Zehlendorf 1923.

Editing

  • Walter Wellenstein (Head): Autumn exhibition “Munich Collections”. October 27, 1942 to November 24, 1942, Graphisches Kabinett at the Association of Berlin Artists , Lützowplatz 9, Schreyer Druck, Berlin 1942.

various

  • The visual artists and the new copyright law. In: Music and Poetry. World Copyright Organization, Intellectual Property Journal. Issue 4, March 1955, p. 7.
  • Summer days on the Portuguese coast. Drawings and text by Walter Wellenstein. In: Westermannsmonthshefte . 72nd year, April 1928, pp. 181-188.

Literature (selection)

monograph

Work documentation

  • Walter Wellenstein, paintings, drawings. Catalog for the exhibition from May 9th – May 31st. May 1958 in the house on Lützowplatz , Berlin-Zehlendorf 1958.
  • Walter Wellenstein. Illustration works and unpublished illustration cycles. In: Illustration. 63, issue 2/1972, Visel, Memmingen 1972.
  • Walter Wellenstein. Drawings from the years 1949–1965. Catalog for the exhibition from January 10th - February 8th 1974, Galerie Wolfgang Gurlitt Munich 1974.
  • Walter Wellenstein 1898–1970. With an introduction by Rolf Reisert, Galerie Lippeck Kunsthandlung, Berlin 1986.
  • Post-war mask spooky. Walter Wellenstein's years in Potsdam . Exhibition catalog with a text by Michael Nungesser , State Capital Potsdam / Cultural Office, Potsdam 1996.

Individual considerations

  • Richard Braungart : Walter Wellenstein. In: Bookplate. Book art and applied graphics. 37th year, issue 2, November 1927, pp. 53–60.
  • Picture collection. Contemporary German black and white art. Reprints from the Art and Life calendar. Complete list of prints based on drawings and original woodcuts that have been published since 1908. Berlin undated (around 1928), pp. 116, 117.
  • A. Langsdorff, painter Walter Wellenstein. In: Die deutsche Artistenwelt, bulletin of the Reich Association of German Artistics e. V. 1st year, No. 13, 1934, p. 8.
  • Paul Weiglin, stories and visions by Walter Wellenstein. In: Velhagen & Klasings monthly books. 56th year, issue 12, August 1942, pp. 681–688.
  • Wellenstein, Walter . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 35 : Libra-Wilhelmson . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1942, p. 357 .
  • Rolf Roeing: caricatures and graphics. In: Archivarion. May 1948. Caricaturist Graphics, Paper 3, pp. 51, 52.
  • BK: ghosts. Exhibition Walter Wellenstein. In: Der Tagesspiegel . 20th September 1952.
  • KG: Painted nightmares. Walter Wellenstein exhibits. In: The day . 5th October 1952.
  • Kürschner's graphic artist handbook Germany, Austria, Switzerland . Edited by Charlotte Fergg-Frowein. Berlin 1959, p. 183 (2nd extended edition: Berlin 1967, p. 320, 321).
  • Felix A. Dargel: Graphic artist and illustrators: Walter Wellenstein. In: sheets of the Free Volksbühne. 13th year, issue 6, June 1960, pp. 170–172.
  • Wellenstein, Walter . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 106-107 .
  • Lucie Schauer : Conjuring ETA Hoffmann. Wellenstein's illustrations for the poet's work - Recent Drawings. In: The world . 17th May 1963.
  • Ingrid Priess: The modern world as a ghost. Walter Wellenstein's critical graphic in the Wilhelm Busch Museum. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung . June 13, 1968.
  • Albert Buesche: Walter Wellenstein. In: Der Tagesspiegel. December 11, 1969.
  • Friedrich Bohnel: Walter Wellenstein. In: Wilhelm-Busch-Jahrbuch 1969 (= communications of the Wilhelm-Busch-Gesellschaft. No. 35). Hanover 1970, p. 70.
  • Hasso Zimdars: The Simplicissimus magazine. Your cartoons. Bonn 1972, p. 144 (dissertation).
  • Hans Ulle: Walter Wellenstein: Realistic-Fantastic. In: the hear . 19th year, issue 94, issue 2, summer 1974, p. 112.
  • ETA Hoffmann and his time. Exhibition catalog. Berlin Museums , Berlin 1976, pp. 69, 108–111.
  • Hans Jürgen Rollwagen: Walter Wellenstein. In: Yearbook of the Ex-Libris Society. July 1978, pp. 21-24.
  • Werner Langer: sadness and hubbub. Memorial exhibition Wellenstein. In: Der Tagesspiegel. 3rd October 1978.
  • Between resistance and adaptation. Art in Germany between 1933–1945. Akademie der Künste, Berlin 1978, p. 66.
  • Art in Berlin from 1930 to 1960. Exhibition catalog. Berlinische Galerie , Berlin 1980, p. 131.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Wellenstein degruyter.com (users need access rights to get to the full text).
  2. ↑ Walter Wellenstein 1898–1970. Nicolai Verlag, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-87584-231-6 , p. 12.
  3. ↑ Walter Wellenstein 1898–1970. Nicolai Verlag, Berlin 1988, p. 16.
  4. ↑ Walter Wellenstein 1898–1970. Nicolai Verlag, Berlin 1988, p. 24.
  5. ^ Website of the German Digital Archive (PDF), accessed on June 14, 2020.
  6. ^ Page of the Georg Kolbe Museums , accessed on June 14, 2020.
  7. ↑ Walter Wellenstein 1898–1970. Nicolai Verlag, Berlin 1988, p. 27.
  8. ↑ Walter Wellenstein 1898–1970. Nicolai Verlag, Berlin 1988, p. 38.
  9. ↑ Walter Wellenstein 1898–1970. Nicolai Verlag, Berlin 1988, p. 47.
  10. ↑ The drawings leading to the charge of blasphemy were Death and the Priest , published on December 3, 1955 in No. 49 and in Im Kreuzgang , published on April 13, 1957 in No. 15 of Simplicissimus. See Walter Wellenstein 1898–1970. Nicolai Verlag, Berlin 1988, p. 47.
  11. ↑ Walter Wellenstein 1898–1970. Nicolai Verlag, Berlin 1988, p. 20.
  12. ↑ Walter Wellenstein 1898–1970. Nicolai Verlag, Berlin 1988, ISBN 978-3-87584-231-9 , p. 9.
  13. ↑ Website of the Federal Archives , accessed on June 14, 2020.
  14. ↑ Walter Wellenstein 1898–1970. Nicolai Verlag, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-87584-231-6 , pp. 178-181 (list of solo and group exhibitions).
  15. ^ Works by Wellenstein on the website of the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein , accessed on June 14, 2020
  16. ↑ Wellenstein on meetingpoint-potsdam.de , accessed on June 14, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Wellenstein, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, draftsman and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH 17th October 1970
Place of death West Berlin