Wilhelm Wrage

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Wilhelm August Wrage (born October 23, 1861 in Bad Bramstedt in Holstein, † 1941 in Berlin ) was a German painter .

Life

Still life with wine glass, 1905

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 .

Town hall St. Johann, painting in the town hall ballroom: St. Arnulf von Metz consecrates the first chapel of St. Johann Count Johann I von Saarbrücken hands over the freedom letter of 1322 Town hall St. Johann, painting in the town hall ballroom: St. Arnulf von Metz consecrates the first chapel of St. Johann Count Johann I von Saarbrücken hands over the freedom letter of 1322
Town hall St. Johann , painting in the town hall ballroom:
St. Arnulf von Metz consecrates the first chapel of St. Johann
Count Johann I von Saarbrücken hands over the freedom letter of 1322

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

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Wrage  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. art lexicon Saar: Wrage, Wilhelm August. July 10, 2015, accessed February 4, 2016 .