Wilhelm Clemens

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Wilhelm Clemens (born July 16, 1847 in Neurath (Grevenbroich) , † December 15, 1934 in Munich ) was a German painter and art collector and patron .

Life

Wilhelm Clemens was a son of the landowner on the Güratherhof , Heinrich Clemens and Anna Josepha, born. Horn. After attending the Marzellengymnasium in Cologne , he studied law at the University of Heidelberg . In 1869 he became a member of the Corps Guestphalia . In the Franco-Prussian War he took part as a lieutenant in the reserve of the Rhenish 7th Uhlan Regiment . After completing his studies, he became a judicial officer at the Aachen Court of Justice , but soon resigned and moved to Munich in 1873/74, where he lived until his death and from then on devoted himself to painting. From 1875 to 1878 he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . His teachers were Wilhelm Diez and Ludwig von Löfftz . He belonged to the Munich Secession and was considered the nestor of the Munich art community. He painted genre pictures , history pictures , landscapes and portraits . In his later years he turned to the Impressionist style .

Wilhelm Clemens found his final resting place in the large family grave of the Pauli family in Kleinkönigsdorf . His sister Anna (1846–1922) was married there to the landowner Josef Pauli (1893–1912). Their daughter Anna Pauli (1871-1932) was since 1897 the second wife of the mayor of Cologne, Max Wallraf . The older sister Sophia married the district administrator of the Bergheim district, Ernst Birck , in her first marriage .

In 1963, Clemensstrasse in Cologne's Altstadt-Süd district was officially dedicated to him.

Clemens Collection

Wilhelm Clemens was a passionate art collector. In over 40 years he has collected more than 1,600 individual pieces in Germany, France, Italy and Spain. His collection, which he donated to the city of Cologne, included numerous paintings, German sculptures from the Middle Ages, small Renaissance sculptures, Baroque sculptures, carpets from the 15th century, Italian bronzes and goldsmiths, jewelry, weapons, ceramics, pewter, furniture and utensils. The exhibition of the Clemens Collection was opened in 1919 in the Kunstgewerbemuseum Cologne on Hansaring.

Awards

  • 1878, bronze medal from the Dietz school in Munich
  • 1886, small gold medal of the Berlin anniversary exhibition for Des Wilderers Ende (Nationalgelrie Berlin)
  • Medal of honor from the Royal Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts for Ludwig II, King of Bavaria
  • 1930, honorary doctorate from a Dr. hc of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Cologne

Works

  • Disputing monks 1881
  • The concern
  • The Poacher's End, 1886
  • The stepchildren
  • With a kiss you betray your master and master, 1889
  • Ludwig II, King of Bavaria

literature

  • Clemens, Wilhelm . In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General Artist Lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . 5th unchanged edition. tape 1 : Aachen – Fyt . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1921, p. 263 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Clemens, Wilhelm. In: Brockhaus' Konversationslexikon. 14th edition, 4th volume: Caub - German art. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig / Berlin / Vienna 1894, p. 373 ( retrobibliothek.de ).
  • Brigitte Klesse, Hanns-Ulrich Haedeke: The Clemens Collection - Exhibition May - September 1963. Overstolzenhaus, Museum of Applied Arts in Cologne
  • Peter Zenker: Wilhelm Clemens from Neurath - painter, art collector, donor , 2010 ( peter-zenker.de ; PDF; 5.2 MB).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 112 , 837.
  2. ^ Rüdiger Schünemann-Steffen: Cologne street names lexicon. 3rd ext. Ed., Jörg-Rüshü-Selbstverlag, Cologne 2016/17, p. 156.
personal data
SURNAME Clemens, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter as well as art collectors and patrons
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Neurath (Grevenbroich)
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1934
Place of death Munich