Wilhelm Binroth

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Wilhelm Binroth (born October 31, 1891 in Schkeuditz / Leipzig , † 1964 in Gelsenkirchen ) was a German genre and landscape painter .

Life

After finishing school in Leipzig, Wilhelm Binroth attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1910 . In 1912 he moved to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He worked in Angelo Jank's class and was later a master student of Franz von Stuck . He finished his studies in art history in 1914, after which he was a soldier until 1918. After an external drawing teacher examination for the higher education authority in Berlin and later a commercial teacher examination, he worked briefly as an industrial teacher in Leipzig. From 1922 he was a lecturer at the art-trade school in Gelsenkirchen . Until the end of the 1950s he taught at the vocational school in Gelsenkirchen.

Binroth created oil paintings and watercolors , but also pastels and monotypes . He mainly painted landscapes, often choosing motifs from Italy.

Exhibitions

  • Several participation in the Great Westphalian Art Exhibition in the House of Fine Arts in Dortmund
  • 1943: House of German Art , Munich
  • 1957: Special exhibition on the occasion of Binroth's 65th birthday in the local history museum in Gelsenkirchen

His pictures can be found in the collections of the Folkwang Museum Essen , the Osthaus Museum Hagen as well as the State Museum and the Vestische Museum in Recklinghausen .

literature

  • Frank Volker: Binroth, Wilhelm . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 11, Saur, Munich a. a. 1995, ISBN 3-598-22751-5 , p. 113.
  • Binroth, Wilhelm . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 308 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry in the matriculation database of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich
  2. ^ A b Frank Volker: Binroth, Wilhelm. In: General Artist Lexicon. Volume 11, Saur, Munich 1995, p. 113.
personal data
SURNAME Binroth, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German genre and landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Schkeuditz , Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH 1964
Place of death Gelsenkirchen