Walther Witting

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Walther Witting, Evan Evans , oil painting in the aisle of the church in Geyer
Portrait of Carsten Niebuhr his wife Christiane Sophie (1908)
from the Dithmarscher State Museum

Walther Günther Julian Witting (born September 21, 1864 in Dresden ; † April 21, 1940 there ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Witting attended the Kreuzschule until 1883 , then entered the Dresden Academy , where he was a student of Leon Pohle and Friedrich Preller the Elder until 1886 . J. , later at the art school in Weimar with Max Thedy . He lived and taught in Wiesbaden , traveled to France , Belgium , the Netherlands and Italy and then settled down permanently in his native Dresden in the district of Blasewitz . He painted portraits, landscapes and genre pictures.

For 43 years he was chairman of the Renten- und Pensionsanstalt for German visual artists, a founding member of the German Art Society, and chairman of the Dresden Art Cooperative for 10 years . He was awarded various medals for his work in the First World War , most recently the title of Royal Saxon Councilor.

Witting married the daughter Elina (nickname: Ina) of Friedrich Preller the Elder in 1895 . J. The mathematician Alexander Witting (1861-1946) was his brother.

Services

In 1890 one of his works was honored with the "Great Silver Medal" in an exhibition at Crystal Palace in London.

In 1900 he won the 1st Prize for scenic design of the town hall hall in Radebeul , created the image 1902. Launched by the Hermann Foundation to Dresden donated, 12.3 times 2.34 m large murals m entitled "The payment of Gradient in Radebeul to emissaries of the cathedral monastery Meißen around 1520 “portrays numerous public figures and can still be visited today.

He painted an altarpiece for the St. Laurentius Church in Geyer .

Witting created portraits, a. a. from

For Karl Gjellerup he created illustrations for his work The Sacrificial Fire: A Legends Piece (1903).

In Dresden there are works by him in the city ​​museum , in the Albertinum and in the Kupferstichkabinett .

For the 100th birthday of Friedrich Preller d. Ä. (1904) he put together "artistic things from letters from Friedrich Preller the Elder".

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1894 in the Casa Baldi, Rome: Friedrich Noack: Schedarium der Künstler in Rom Digitization of the Bibliotheca Hertziana
  2. ^ Max Jordan : Friedrich Preller: Diaries of the artist . United Art Institutions, Munich-Kaufbeuren 1904, p. 241 .
  3. ↑ Reinhold Heling: Old Prussian Gender Studies , 31st year, Volume 14, 1983, from the Quassowski estate, 7th carpenter from East Prussia . In: Association for family research in East and West Prussia eV, seat in Hamburg (ed.): Pages of the association for family research in East and West Prussia . ISSN  0344-5593 , p. 292 (listed here with the first name Eline ).
  4. ↑ gallery Boris Wilnitsky, from the artist's biography of Walther Witting , Stand: November 8 of 2009.
  5. ^ Frank Andert (Red.): Radebeul City Lexicon . Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Published by the Radebeul City Archives. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9 , p. 162-163 .
  6. ↑ Prof. Karl Hoffacker, Zurich (ed.): Kunstgewerbeblatt 12th volume, page 177 ( online ).
  7. ^ Gudrun Täubert: Art in the public space of the city of Radebeul . In: Association for Monument Preservation and New Building Radebeul (ed.): Contributions to the urban culture of the city of Radebeul . Radebeul 2002. ( Online version of the object list , as of November 8, 2009.)
  8. ↑ a b c German Photo Library
  9. ↑ Where history comes to life. (No longer available online.) Prager Zeitung online, August 20, 2003, archived from the original on April 28, 2005 ; Retrieved on December 8, 2017 (original url leads today to different content).
  10. ↑ Saxon Biography - the personal history lexicon on the history of Saxony , as of November 16, 2009.
  11. ↑ www.encyclopedia.com
  12. ↑ Walther Witting (Ed.): "Artistic things from letters from Friedrich Preller the Elder" . Hermann Böhlaus Nachf., Weimar 1903.
personal data
SURNAME Witting, Walther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Witting, Walther Günther Julian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1940
Place of death Dresden