Wil Howard

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Wilhelm Rudolf Hermann Howard (born March 20, 1879 in Leipzig , † April 4, 1945 in Mittenwald ) was a German landscape and portrait painter , illustrator , graphic artist , sculptor and craftsman . As an artist he called himself Wil or Will Howard . As an illustrator, he used the pseudonyms Toby Flip and Wil de Vray .

Life

Wil Howard's studio, Pölitzstrasse 6, Leipzig

The son of the Leipzig University professor Hermann Howard (1848-1919) visited from Easter 1889 to Pentecost 1890, the Sexta and Quinta of the Royal Grammar School in Leipzig. After completing his school education, he attended the Leipzig Art Academy from 1897 to 1899 , moved to the Munich Art Academy from 1900 to 1904 , and finally completed his studies at the Académie Julian in Paris from 1904 to 1911 . During this time he was director of the illustrated magazine Le Témoin for two years , for which he made around 200 drawings. He was one of the founders of the group of artists who met regularly in the Parisian Café du Dôme . He was also a member of the Société du Salon d'Automne . He also joined the Leipzig Masonic Lodge Balduin zur Linde .

In 1911 he returned to Leipzig. His apartment and studio were initially at Bosestrasse 9 / II. In 1919 he built his own studio in the courtyard of the building at Pölitzstraße 6, in the Gohlis district , which Max Alfred Brumme later used. Together with Max Klinger he founded the Leipzig Annual Exhibition (LIA), of which he was a board member until Klinger's death. From 1913 he was also first chairman of the Leipzig Artists' Association .

A studio exhibition held in December 1913 with pictures and small sculptures, on the occasion of which an illustrated exhibition catalog was published, quickly made him known.

In 1932 he retired to Mittenwald in Upper Bavaria , where he succumbed to a heart condition shortly before the end of the Second World War .

Artistic work

Howard initially began as a painter of nudes , still lifes , portraits and landscapes, but port pictures also belong to his genre . His Leipzig vedute , which show his Paris training in a brisk Impressionist technique, became particularly well known .

On Klinger's advice, he began working as a sculptor from 1911. He also designed furniture, interior decorations, book covers and coats of arms .

Works (selection)

  • Monument to Heinrich Pfeil

  • Memorial plaque for Dr. Ado Hofmann

  • Paul Thorer's tomb

  • Anspach-Niemann tomb

  • Rinneberg tomb

  • Signet of the artist

  • 1912: Limestone stele for Heinrich Pfeil , Kickerlingsberg 19, Leipzig
  • 1912: Portrait of Barnet Licht , Leipzig City History Museum
  • 1915: Portrait of Hans Krug von Nidda , bronze plaque, Leipzig City History Museum
  • 1918: Memorial plaque for Dr. phil. Ado Hofmann, bronze, Südfriedhof Leipzig, I. Department
  • 1921: Tomb for the tobacco merchant Paul Thorer (1858–1920), Südfriedhof Leipzig, XV. Department
  • 1921: bust of the father, privy councilor Prof. Dr. Hermann Howard (formerly Leipzig University)
  • 1922: Anspach-Niemann tomb, Südfriedhof Leipzig, XVII. Department
  • Tomb Rinneberg, Südfriedhof Leipzig, XII. Department
  • Girl's head (stone); Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig
  • Memorial for the Corps Saxonia Leipzig in the Corpshaus
  • Cenotaph for the Royal Saxon Uhlan Regiment No. 18, Leipzig Südfriedhof (cleared)
  • Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, bronze sculpture, Prague Museum of Communism
Publications
  • Mittenwald. My love. A selection of 6 from the drawings , Kunststube, Mittenwald 1934

literature

  • Catalog of the art exhibition LJA. Organized by the Leipzig Annual Exhibition Association. Leipzig 1911 ff.
  • Original and reproduction, Zeitschrift für Kunsthandel und Kunstsammlungen , Volume II, Issue 3/4 (1913), p. 106.
  • Howard, Wil . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 17 : Heubel – Hubard . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1924, p. 585 .
  • Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven (ed.), Annette Gautherie-Kampka: Café du Dôme. German painter in Paris 1903–1914. Donat, Bremen 1996, ISBN 3-931737-17-9 .

Web links

Commons : Wil Howard  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ König Albert-Gymnasium (Royal High School until 1900) in Leipzig: Student album 1880–1904 / 05. Friedrich Grober, Leipzig 1905.
  2. ↑ Howard, Wil . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 17 : Heubel – Hubard . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1924, p. 585 .
personal data
SURNAME Howard, Wil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Howard, Wilhelm Rudolf Hermann (full name); Flip, Toby (pseudonym); Vray, Wil de (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist, illustrator, sculptor, craftsman
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 1945
Place of death Mittenwald