Wilhelm Brandenberg

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Wilhelm "Willi" Ludger Brandenberg (born December 22, 1889 in Essen , † January 8, 1975 in Krefeld ) was a German painter of the Düsseldorf School and the New Objectivity .

Life

Brandenberg, son of coal merchant Wilhelm Georg Brandenberg (1866–1922), moved with his family to Krefeld in 1892, where his father made some fortune. In 1906 he went to Düsseldorf . After unsuccessful attempts, he was admitted to study at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1908 . There were Willy Spatz , Adolf Munzer , Julius Paul Junghanns , Ludwig Keller and Adolf Maennchen his teachers. He went on study trips abroad with Junghanns. In 1913 he became a member of the Düsseldorf artists' association Malkasten . During the First World War he interrupted his art studies and from 1917 served as an officer in a hussar regiment. In 1919 he continued his studies and became a master student at Münzer. In 1919 he married. In 1921 he finished his studies. His wife died in 1922, and so did his father in the same year. In that year he moved back to Krefeld- Bockum , where he lived in his father's “Wilhelmshof” until 1945, and then a house on a neighboring property. In 1934 he became a teacher at the Folkwang Meisterschule (Master School of German Crafts) in Essen. He held this position until 1944. In 1937 he joined the NSDAP . Shortly after the end of the war in 1945, the British military administration confiscated Brandenberg's residence, the “Wilhelmshof”, and around a hundred of his paintings were lost. In the post-war period he is said to have become a member of the "Niederrheinischen Künstlergilde" (Lower Rhine Artists Guild).

Brandenberg created a few still lifes , a few portraits , especially landscapes , including many industrial pictures, river and city views as well as prosaic garden scenes in a style of New Objectivity characterized by impressionistic painting techniques, to which he remained committed well into the 1940s. With these paintings Brandenberg was represented at many exhibitions between 1920 and 1973, regularly at exhibitions of the artists' association Malkasten , also at major Düsseldorf art exhibitions and at major German art exhibitions in Munich (1938, 1941, 1942, 1943). His works were posthumously shown at exhibitions in 1976 ( Galerie Paffrath , Düsseldorf, as well as HP-Galerie, Velbert-Langenberg) and 2011 ( Museum Center Burg Linn ).

literature

  • Selina Fingland: The Krefeld painter Wilhelm Brandenberg - a research report . In: Die Heimat , Volume 80, Krefeld 2009, pp. 155–161.
  • Christoph Dautermann: Wilhelm Brandenberg (1889–1975). A painter of the New Objectivity in the Museum Burg Linn . Museum Burg Linn, Krefeld 2011 ( PDF ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016) , PDF
  2. ↑ Christina Schulte: Ludger Wilhelm Brandenberg: The almost forgotten artist . Article from February 18, 2011 in the portal wz.de , accessed on November 10, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Brandenberg, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brandenberg, Wilhelm Ludger (full name); Brandenberg, Willi (Willy)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter of the Düsseldorf School and the New Objectivity
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1975
Place of death Krefeld