Wilhelm Christens
Wilhelm Christens (born January 25, 1878 in Düsseldorf ; † March 17, 1964 ibid) was a German landscape , portrait and still life painter and graphic artist from the Düsseldorf School . He also worked as a restorer .
Life
Wilhelm Christens first studied at the Karlsruhe School of Applied Arts , then until 1903 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , where Peter Janssen the Elder , Eduard von Gebhardt , Fritz Roeber and Willy Spatz were his teachers. He became a member of the Free Association of Düsseldorf Artists . Study trips took him to Munich , Paris , Berlin and the Netherlands . From 1904 he exhibited at major exhibitions in Düsseldorf and Munich. In 1904 the art association for the Rhineland and Westphalia acquired his painting The Potato Peeler . He considered a bacchante to be his main work , which was exhibited in the Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf in 1911 .
literature
- Walter Cohen : Christens, Wilhelm . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 6 : Carlini-Cioci . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 536 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Carsten Roth: Christens, Wilhelm . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 19, Saur, Munich a. a. 1998, ISBN 3-598-22759-0 , p. 23.
Web links
- Wilhelm Christens , data sheet at rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
- Wilhelm Christens , Auction Results on artnet .de
Individual evidence
- ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016), PDF
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| SURNAME | Christens, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape, portrait and still life painter as well as graphic artist from the Düsseldorf School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 25, 1878 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 17, 1964 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |