Walter Wohlschlegel

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"Strauss", painting from 1950.
“Composition 1”, gouache from 1964.

Walter Wohlschlegel (born June 8, 1907 in Tumringen , † 1999 in Freiburg ) was a German painter . After an expressive and abstract early phase, Wohlschlegel's work was based on the art of German Informel .

Life

In 1921 Walter Wohlschlegel did an apprenticeship as a pattern draftsman at the Köchlin-Stoffdruck company in his hometown Lörrach. Before he was a master student of Prof. Albert Haueisen at the Karlsruhe Academy from 1930 to 1935 , Wohlschlegel attended the painting and drawing class of the general trade school in Basel in 1928 . During the Second World War , Wohlschlegel served as a soldier in Greece . After his return he first spent two years in his hometown Lörrach and then moved to Freiburg, where he married in 1948. From there, Freiburg became his main residence, where he died in 1999.

Work and style

His early work was characterized by academic objectivity and figuration with slight expressive tendencies, which after the war dissolved in expressionist linocuts . In the 1960s, Wohlschlegel, like some of his contemporaries, turned entirely to Art Informel , but often added plastic-looking grounds made of sand and spatula to his pictures.

In the 1970s, Wohlschlegel's painting became increasingly two-dimensional. Its expressive colors contrasted with sharp-edged shapes and contrasts. However, this phase of his work lasted only a short time. As early as the late 1970s, Wohlschlegel went against his previous style: the artist used a softer, more pastel color palette and blurred the shapes in the background. Wohlschlegel's painting was based on surreal pictorial themes and returned more to figurative painting.

This style was even more pronounced in his late work. In the 1990s, Wohlschlegel painted emotionally with gestural brushstrokes and drop-like color gradients that occasionally remind of abstract expressionism . Expressive colors come back to the fore for the artist.

Selected exhibitions

  • 1934: "Baden Secession", City of Freiburg
  • 1941: Upper Baden art exhibition, Baden-Baden
  • 1947: "Baden Secession", University of Freiburg
  • 1950: State Art Gallery , Baden-Baden
  • 1951: House of Art in Munich
  • 1952: Badischer Kunstverein , Karlsruhe
  • 1953: 3rd German Art Exhibition in Dresden
  • 1954: Freie Gruppe Oberrhein, Kunstverein Freiburg
  • 1955: Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart
  • 1957: 4th national exhibition, Reissmuseum , Mannheim
  • 1958: “Gruppe realité 58”, Kunstverein Freiburg
  • 1958: “Baden Artists 1958”, State Art Gallery, Baden-Baden
  • 1960: Premier Salon international de Peinture et de Sculpture, France
  • 1962: Solo exhibition at the Kunstverein Freiburg
  • 1965: Solo exhibition in the Society of Young Art, Baden-Baden
  • 1970: Solo exhibition, Galerie Kröner, Freiburg
  • 1974: Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg, Black Monastery Freiburg
  • 1977: Solo exhibition in the Black Monastery, Kunstverein Freiburg
  • 1980: Hôtel de Ville, Mulhouse
  • 1987: Solo exhibition, Museum of New Art , Freiburg
  • 1990: Solo exhibition, Rombach Gallery, Freiburg
  • 1997: Retrospective, Black Monastery, Freiburg

Collections

  • Graphic Museum Foundation Schreiner, Bad Steben
  • Museum of New Art - Freiburg
  • Dreiländermuseum Loerrach
  • Augustinian Museum , Freiburg

Awards and grants

  • 1977 Prize from the German Book Trade Association, Frankfurt am Main

Publications

  • Walter Wohlschlegel: `` 70 years of art - 30s to 90s of the 20th century ''; July 19 to October 11, 2009, Graphics Museum Stiftung Schreiner, Bad Steben

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Wohlschlegel: 70 years of art - 30s to 90s of the 20th century ; July 19 to October 11, 2009, Graphics Museum Stiftung Schreiner, Bad Steben
  2. ^ Walter Wohlschlegel: 70 years of art - 30s to 90s of the 20th century ; July 19 to October 11, 2009, Graphics Museum Stiftung Schreiner, Bad Steben
  3. ^ Walter Wohlschlegel: 70 years of art - 30s to 90s of the 20th century ; July 19 to October 11, 2009, Graphics Museum Stiftung Schreiner, Bad Steben
  4. ^ [1] , Graphics Museum Foundation Schreiner
  5. ↑ [2] , Dreiländermuseum Lörrach
  6. ↑ [3]
personal data
SURNAME Wohlschlegel, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Tumringen
DATE OF DEATH 1999
Place of death Freiburg