Wilhelm Wrage
Wilhelm August Wrage (born October 23, 1861 in Bad Bramstedt in Holstein, † 1941 in Berlin ) was a German painter .
Life
As the son of farmer Claus Wrage, he trained as a painter in Hamburg from 1876 to 1880 . From 1880 to 1882 he was a day student at the Kgl. Decorative Arts Museum Berlin . He then worked as a painter's assistant in Berlin, Frankfurt a. M., in Switzerland and Hungary.
From 1885 Wrage was a partner in the painting company Gebr. Eilers in Berlin. In 1890 he co-founded the painting company Wrage & Rolff, which existed for seven years.
From 1898 to 1900 he studied at the Kgl. University of Fine Arts in Berlin and received the silver medal. In his senior years he won first prize in the public competition to paint the town hall in St. Johann an der Saar (today Saarbrücken ).
During the First World War Wrage taught at a high school.
He lived mainly in Berlin, in 1935 at Kurfürstenstrasse 153. He belonged to the Association of Berlin Artists and the Reich Association of German Artists .
Works
Wrage painted portraits, genre pictures, history pictures and still lifes in the late romantic style. His main work is the painting of the St. Johann town hall in Saarbrücken (1900–1903). The main picture is historical, 20 m long and painted directly on the plaster.
family
Wilhelm Wrage is the brother of the landscape painter Hinrich Wrage .
literature
- Dressler: art manual. Volume 2, 1930
- Schleswig-Holstein Artist Lexicon.
- Wrage, Wilhelm . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947, p. 270-271 .
- Who is it Edition 1935, p. 1764.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ art lexicon Saar: Wrage, Wilhelm August. July 10, 2015, accessed February 4, 2016 .
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SURNAME | Wrage, Wilhelm |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wrage, Wilhelm August (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 23, 1861 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Bramstedt |
DATE OF DEATH | 1941 |
Place of death | Berlin |