Walther Bötticher

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Walther Bötticher (born August 27, 1885 in Hagen ; † September 3, 1916 on the Somme ) was a German painter and representative of Expressionism .

Life

Even as a high school student , Walther Bötticher often visited the Folkwang Museum , which Karl Ernst Osthaus opened in Hagen in 1902 , where he got to know Expressionism and in particular the work of Christian Rohlfs and Emil Nolde . In 1906 Bötticher studied first at the art school in Weimar and at the teaching and experimental studios for applied and free art ( Debschitz School ) in Munich . In 1907/08 he shared a studio with Christian Rohlfs in Hetschburg near Weimar and also took lessons there. Bötticher moved to Berlin in 1910 . Here he made contact with Emil Nolde and the artist community Brücke . But he turned down the offer to join the artist community and in 1911 he returned to Hagen. This was followed by solo and group exhibitions and he was also featured in various magazines ( Cicerone , Kunstchronik , Die Rheinlande and Xenien ). With the outbreak of the First World War he came to the front, was injured, but returned quickly and finally fell on the Somme in 1916 .

Artistic creation

"The works that were created during these years reveal a deep relationship with both nature and the decorative profession of painting. He saw the landscape with love and devotion, but he also always saw it as a decorator. He never lost himself in impressionistic analysis, He built the decorative work from reliably captured picture elements. His picture constructions are carried out as logically as his impressions are delicately perceived. And they are rich in it. You feel no manner, but living progress from picture to picture. Each throw is a creation, and in this his landscapes and portraits do not differ from the free, figurative compositions. Biblical subjects particularly suited his deep nature, which never avoided any problem. He knew how to grasp them tragically. But what he created always remained the image, which overcame the thematic through the richness and beauty of its colorful existence graphic sheets, drawings, wood and linoleum cuts. They combine now grace, now depth of feeling with a powerful breadth of the presentation. Boys bathing, riders, and cows grazing are frequent; a colored crucifixion is at the center of the biblical material. "

"He belongs to the group that has Matisse as its leader in France and Nolde in Germany. [...] Whoever wants to recognize where our art's future hopes lie today will have to remember the name of this artist." (Karl Ernst Osthaus about Walther Bötticher)

Works by him are available in the Osthaus Museum Hagen , the Museum Folkwang in Essen and the Kunsthalle Mannheim .

Walther Bötticher's works were considered degenerate art under the National Socialists and were removed from German museums in 1937/38.

Works (selection)

Painting "The singer (with music director Laugs)" (1912)
  • "Cows on the Pasture" (1912), painting
  • "Penitential Preacher" (1913), painting and linocut
  • "Else Lasker-Schüler tells fairy tales", painting
  • "Dr. Heinrich Mann at a lecture in the Folkwang Museum", drawing
  • "Genesis" (1913), 6 sheets - prints, Horen-Verlag Berlin
  • "Singing girls", painting
  • "Disciples of Emmaus", painting
  • "And they were ashamed," painting
  • "Couple", (1909) color lithograph

Exhibitions

  • 1911 and 1915 Museum Folkwang in Hagen
  • 1912 Sonderbund exhibition in Cologne
  • 1917 Folkwang Museum in Hagen
  • 1919 Frankfurter Kunstverein
  • 1920 Alfred Flechtheim Gallery in Düsseldorf
  • 1952 Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum in Hagen
  • 1985 Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum in Hagen
  • 2009 Utermann Gallery in Hagen

Awards

  • 1913 Prize in the Essen competition with: "The Flute Player"

literature

  • Walter Boetticher. Drawings by Ottomar Starke , exhibition catalog - Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, print by Leonhard Tietz Akt.-Ges. Düsseldorf 1920.
  • Deutsche Graphik des Westens , Wedderkop, Hermann von (ed.), Feuerverlag, Weimar 1922.
  • Vollmer - General Lexicon d. image. Artist… , EASeemann Verlag, Leipzig 2010.
  • Walther Bötticher: 1885-1916 , exhibition catalog - Karl-Ernst-Osthaus-Museum, Hagen.
  • Walther Bötticher (1885-1916): a painter from the vicinity of the Hagen Museum Folkwang , Angelika Steinmetz - Verlag: Lit, 1993.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German graphics of the west
  2. ↑ Walther Bötticher on AlfredFlechtheim.com
  3. ↑ Walther Bötticher inventory - insights into the archive of the annual gifts, Westfälischer Kunstverein on retrospektiven.wordpress.com
  4. ↑ Walther Bötticher on AlfredFlechtheim.com
  5. ↑ German graphics of the west
  6. ↑ German graphics of the west
  7. ↑ Walther Bötticher on AlfredFlechtheim.com
  8. ↑ Walther Bötticher Database Degenerate Art
personal data
SURNAME Bötticher, Walther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagen
DATE OF DEATH September 3, 1916
Place of death France