Werner Riemann (painter)

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W. Riemann: Dorfstrasse in Nidden

Werner Riemann (born June 15, 1893 in Königsberg i. Pr. , † January 18, 1936 in Pillau ) was a German painter.

Life

Riemann was the son of a teacher and attended secondary school in Königsberg. From 1910 he studied at the Königsberg Art Academy with Ludwig Dettmann , Arthur Degner and Heinrich Wolff ., Then at the Berlin Academy with Hans Baluschek and Max Liebermann . In 1913 he first visited Nidden with Ernst Mollenhauer . As a war volunteer he went to the First World War in 1914 , first in the 1st Leib-Hussar Regiment No. 1 , later in the Infantry Regiment "Duke Karl von Mecklenburg-Strelitz" (6th East Prussian) No. 43 . He became an officer, was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class in 1916, and returned to the Königsberg Academy in 1918. Here he was friends with Eduard Bischoff . From 1921 to 1923 he lived and worked on Rügen . In 1924 he was briefly in Berlin, later in Königsberg, befriended Karl Storch the Elder. J. (1899–1991) and Ernst Wiechert . In 1926 he entered the Prussian school service. He completed his probationary year at the Hufengymnasium in Königsberg. In 1927 he started working as a drawing teacher at the secondary school in Pillau, where he died at the age of 43.

Exhibitions

See also

literature

  • East Prussia and its painters . Dr. Black Calendar 1995.
  • Jörn Barfod: A summer on the Baltic Sea: the painter Werner Riemann. With contributions by Klaus Riemann, Marietta Riemann and Monika Sürie; Husum 2003 ISBN 978-3-89876-104-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ingeborg Kelch-Nolde : Königsberg Art Academy 1845–1945. Biographies of the directors, teachers and students , pp. 65–94, here p. 87 List (University of Mainz) (PDF; 322 kB)
  2. ^ Exhibition archive , accessed on July 19, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Riemann, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg i. Pr.
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1936
Place of death Pillau , Samland